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Hello everybody and welcome to Finding Your Innergator Podcast, where we talk about discipline, relationships, and the habits that release to greatness that is already inside of you.
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I'm your host, Arby Wright, and I am so glad that you're here.
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In each episode, we'll explore powerful lessons, real life stories, and practical strategies to help you live intentionally, build meaningful relationships, and unlock your full potential.
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But greatness isn't something you stumble into, it's something that is built every single day.
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So let's get started and begin the journey to finding your innergator.
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Hello everybody, this is RB Wright, and I am so glad that you are here.
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You're listening to the Finding Your Inner Gator podcast.
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You know, over the last uh past several episodes, really, right, we introduced the five pillars of the innergator mindset.
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These pillars are the mind, right?
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How the mind works, health, relationships, your calendar, and finance.
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Where we actually uh, you know, that's where you find your freedom.
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Last week we talked about the mind because everything starts there.
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Everything starts in the mind.
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But today we're looking in the second pillar.
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This one is incredibly important.
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I want you to pay attention.
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It's your health.
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Health is the engine, guys.
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It's the engine.
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Your body is the engine that drives everything you do.
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If your energy is low, if you're constantly tired, if your health begins declining, everything becomes harder.
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Your thinking becomes slower, your patience, trust me on that one, your patience becomes shorter, your performance begins to drop.
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You can't lead well, you can't focus well, you cannot show up as the best version of yourself.
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Your mind may set the direction, but it's your body that provides the energy to execute.
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One of the biggest lies, misconceptions that people tell themselves is, hey, I'll focus on my health later.
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Things like, I'm busy right now.
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I've got too much going on.
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I start exercising once things slow down.
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Here's the truth.
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They rarely slow down.
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It only gets bigger, responsibilities increase, your calendar gets fuller, stress increases, and if you're not taking care of your health along the way, eventually your body forces you to pay attention.
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And I'll say this on that.
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For years, and I mean years, that's who I was.
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Ah, yeah, I feel all right.
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I'm not going to the doctor.
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I need to go get a checkup, we'll do it.
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And so for several years, I didn't do it.
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Now, back up a couple of years ago, I decided, you know what, it's time for me to get a checkup.
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I went, did a full workup, and I was not happy.
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I was not happy with those results, right?
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When those tests came back, I felt like I had just failed that test.
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Cholesterol is higher than it needed to be.
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I had a lot of my numbers were completely out of whack.
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I may not have appeared to look obese, but according to the chart, I was really obese.
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So August of 2024.
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Yeah, August of 2024, August 31st.
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I made some immediate lifestyle changes.
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When I did that, I became very focused on my health, right?
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So over the course of about a year, I was able to drop 38 pounds.
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And then last year I went to an executive exam.
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I think I talked about that uh when I was telling you about the intergator reset, right?
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How to how to do that breathing.
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Uh I went to an executive exam up in Ohio.
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And I was excited to take.
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I felt like I had studied for this test.
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And my numbers came back incredible.
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And it did something to me, right?
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It made me feel better.
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I'm invigorated.
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I've been able to keep the weight off.
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My energy levels are higher.
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I look better and younger than I had.
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It's interesting.
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A few years ago, I ran to a good friend of mine.
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He's sitting across the table from me.
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He goes, dude, you've aged 10 years in the last year.
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I was traveling all the time.
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I was eating junk.
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I was not monitoring.
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I wasn't getting the sleep that I needed.
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When I made the decision to make those changes, I felt better.
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I looked, I didn't look like I was aging every hour.
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And my results went up.
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You know, today I'm 54 years old, right?
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54 years old, and I physically feel the best that I have felt since probably early 20s.
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It's amazing when you stop and you focus and do small things daily, how that happens, right?
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How that happens.
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So again, another example of me talking to you, I'm not just telling you what to do.
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I'm telling you what I had to do and why this system works.
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Health is actually one of the purest forms of discipline, right?
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You don't accidentally become healthy.
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Nobody accidentally develops these big energy bursts.
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They don't accidentally build strength.
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Those things come from performing consistent habits.
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And as I said to you a while ago, it's making small decisions every day.
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I tell people all the time, where you're at today is a result of the decisions you made yesterday, but the decisions you make tomorrow or today determine where you're going to be tomorrow, right?
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Small decisions every single day, like what you eat, how much you move, what you put in your body, how well you sleep, how you manage stress.
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When we talk about compounding, right, when we compare that to interest with relationships, with habits and small tasks, understand that these choices, what you eat, how much you move, your sleep, how you manage your stress, those daily choices do compound over time.
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Over time.
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Hey, I'm taking a small boat out, need to put in the water.
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I pull up, get in the boat, fire it up, and it goes.
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It goes.
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When I want to go offshore, I go in, it goes.
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If I'm using trolling motors, and a lot of times what I do anyway, the night before, sometimes I'll go ahead and have the boat splash and I'll I call it plugging it in, but I hook up to make sure my batteries are charged.
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I have regular maintenance done and performed on both boats, right?
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When it's time for an oil change, that oil change is done.
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I got one boat that has two engines.
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It's not cheap to have the oil change, but I have to have both of them done.
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I want them checking the filters, I want them checking the pumps, I want them checking everything to make certain that it's performing at the level it needs to perform.
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When you're tournament fishing, you're running hard.
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I got to make certain that I'm not going to lose time because of something going on with the boat.
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One of the most important pieces of our equipment, one of the most important items that we have is the engines on the boat.
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If the engine isn't maintained, if something is wrong, you know what?
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It may leave the dock fine.
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But eventually, I'm going to have problems.
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And the further you go offshore, the bigger those problems and repercussions of those problems become.
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And when the engine breaks down, everything stops.
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You get that parallel?
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Do you get that parallel?
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Energy is at a leadership advantage.
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Something I've learned over the years is that energy is contagious.
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High energy people influence rooms.
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They influence teams.
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They influence conversations.
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People are naturally drawn to people who show up with energy and enthusiasm, but energy doesn't come from motivational speeches.
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I've told you that, right?
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I've told you, I don't believe in motivation.
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I think motivation is a result of action.
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I don't think it creates the action.
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Energy comes from taking care of your body.
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Taking care of your body.
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Be hydrated, right?
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Be hydrated.
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Be rested.
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Be clear.
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When I talk about health, I'm really talking about four areas, right?
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Number one is movement.
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You may not believe this, but your body was designed to move.
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Right now, look, your arms, you can move, I move my arms around right here.
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Clapping my hands.
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Your body was designed to move.
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Walking, strength training, exercise.
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You I'm not asking you to become a professional athlete.
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I'm asking to take care of what you got.
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Your body needs movement.
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Movement increases energy.
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Movement increases and improves mental clarity.
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When I said to you, you wake up in the morning, the G on your on your daily disciplines, right?
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Get clear.
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Get clear.
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Move.
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Get clear.
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And movement?
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It improves your mood.
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It puts you in a better mood.
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Nutrition?
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Jennifer, my wife, for years was a fitness trainer, right?
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And she always told me that what you put in your body matters.
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She would tell me over and over again, food is fuel.
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When you're able to enjoy the food and it does good things for your body, that's a great combination, right?
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Food is fuel.
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But if you consistently put low-quality fuel in your system, you eventually were going to feel it.
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If I get water in the gas on my boats, I'm in trouble, right?
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I got to put the right fuel in it to perform at the highest possible level.
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If you put low-quality fuel into your system, just like my boat, let me tell you what's going to happen.
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You're going to have energy crashes, you're going to have lack of focus, you're going to have poor recovery.
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Nutrition is not about perfection, right?
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It just means you're making better choices more often.
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The most underrated performance tool in existence has to be sleep.
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When you sleep, your brain is resetting.
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Your body's repairing.
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Your hormones actually regulate.
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Your energy restore.
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It's like it's like plugging in your iPhone or putting it on that magnetic charger.
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Your energy is getting restored.
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Lack of sleep, poor sleep, it will destroy the performance.
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The fourth one I like to talk about when I talk about health is stress management.
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I'm gonna tell you, stress is absolutely a part of life.
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Unmanaged stress is absolutely dangerous.
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That's why things like the breathing exercise we talked about earlier, having quiet time, reflection, spending time outdoors, they all matter.
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These habits help reset your nervous system.
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You know, uh living where I live and loving, I have an 8 o'clock meeting every single morning.
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And when I'm not on the road and I'm in town, I like to get up about 4.30 to get clear, get my head right.
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And a lot of times I'll do that standing on the bow of my boat watching the sun come up.
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I'm back at the dock by 7.15, 7.30, and I'm dressed, had a cup of coffee, ready for my meeting at 8 o'clock.
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When I'm looking at the 50, 60, 100 people on the screen on this meeting, I realize that I probably started my day differently than every one of them.
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But I had my quiet time.
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I had my reflection.
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I had some time outdoors, and my stress, my stress didn't start in the morning, right?
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I eliminated it and did give didn't give it the opportunity to be there.
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It it helps, like I said, to reset that nervous system.
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And my advice to you on this is to find that quiet time, a place you can reflect.
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Sometimes just taking a 20-minute walk would change everything.
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Your body was meant to move.
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And doing that can help you reset, right?
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The integrated philosophy on health is it's actually very simple.
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You don't have to be perfect, but I need you to be intentional.
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You have to recognize that your health is not separate from your, they're not two different things.
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It's not separate from your success.
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I think it's the foundation of it.
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If your mind is a commander center, your body is the engine, they both have to be strong.
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I want you to remember what I said from episode one, and I'll say it every single time.
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Inside every person listening to this, you that's listening to this right now, I hope you're listening to it while you walk.
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You get your AirPods in, you're walking, you're moving, you're listening to this, and you're smiling, but inside of you there's greatness.
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That greatness is your innergator.
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But greatness requires energy.
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It requires stamina.
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It requires strength.
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It requires a lot of strength.
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Those things come from taking care of your body, right?
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From protecting your health.
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My challenge for you this week is pick up one health habit to improve.
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Just one.
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Maybe it is walking 20 minutes a day.
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Maybe it's drinking more water.
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Hey, wake up to water.
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Remember that.
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Wake up to water.
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Get up in the morning.
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First thing you do as you're getting clear is you drink water.
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Your body's been sitting there sleeping all night.
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You are dehydrated.
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Drink water.
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Get the juices flowing.
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Get better sleep.
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Go to the gym three times this week.
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Maybe it's one of those, right?
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But small changes repeated consistently create powerful results.
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Let me say that again.
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It just hit me.
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Small changes repeated consistently create powerful, powerful results.
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All right, next week we're going to be moving into the third pillar of the integrated, right?
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We've talked about the mind, we've talked about health.
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And this one sits right in the center of the philosophy.
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And that's relationships.
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Because greatness is not achieved alone, it is achieved through optimizing relationships.
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I hope you enjoyed this episode.
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I hope it helps you.
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I hope that you will commit to do something this week health-wise and win the week.
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Win it.
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And I look forward to talking to you next week.
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Thanks, guys.
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Everybody, thank you so much for listening to the Finding Your Inner Gator podcast.
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You know, if today's episode helped you, share it with someone who needs to hear this message.
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Remember, greatness is achieved through discipline, intentional action, and optimizing the relationships around you.
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I look forward to getting with you next week.
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Now, go Gatorize your day.
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Hello everybody and welcome to Finding Your Innergator Podcast, where we talk about discipline, relationships, and the habits that release to greatness that is already inside of you.
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I'm your host, Arby Wright, and I am so glad that you're here.
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In each episode, we'll explore powerful lessons, real life stories, and practical strategies to help you live intentionally, build meaningful relationships, and unlock your full potential.
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But greatness isn't something you stumble into, it's something that is built every single day.
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So let's get started and begin the journey to finding your innergator.
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Hello everybody, this is RB Wright, and I am so glad that you are here.
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You're listening to the Finding Your Inner Gator podcast.
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You know, over the last uh past several episodes, really, right, we introduced the five pillars of the innergator mindset.
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These pillars are the mind, right?
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How the mind works, health, relationships, your calendar, and finance.
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Where we actually uh, you know, that's where you find your freedom.
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Last week we talked about the mind because everything starts there.
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Everything starts in the mind.
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But today we're looking in the second pillar.
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This one is incredibly important.
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I want you to pay attention.
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It's your health.
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Health is the engine, guys.
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It's the engine.
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Your body is the engine that drives everything you do.
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If your energy is low, if you're constantly tired, if your health begins declining, everything becomes harder.
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Your thinking becomes slower, your patience, trust me on that one, your patience becomes shorter, your performance begins to drop.
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You can't lead well, you can't focus well, you cannot show up as the best version of yourself.
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Your mind may set the direction, but it's your body that provides the energy to execute.
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One of the biggest lies, misconceptions that people tell themselves is, hey, I'll focus on my health later.
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Things like, I'm busy right now.
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I've got too much going on.
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I start exercising once things slow down.
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Here's the truth.
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They rarely slow down.
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It only gets bigger, responsibilities increase, your calendar gets fuller, stress increases, and if you're not taking care of your health along the way, eventually your body forces you to pay attention.
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And I'll say this on that.
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For years, and I mean years, that's who I was.
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Ah, yeah, I feel all right.
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I'm not going to the doctor.
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I need to go get a checkup, we'll do it.
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And so for several years, I didn't do it.
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Now, back up a couple of years ago, I decided, you know what, it's time for me to get a checkup.
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I went, did a full workup, and I was not happy.
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I was not happy with those results, right?
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When those tests came back, I felt like I had just failed that test.
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Cholesterol is higher than it needed to be.
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I had a lot of my numbers were completely out of whack.
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I may not have appeared to look obese, but according to the chart, I was really obese.
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So August of 2024.
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Yeah, August of 2024, August 31st.
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I made some immediate lifestyle changes.
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When I did that, I became very focused on my health, right?
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So over the course of about a year, I was able to drop 38 pounds.
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And then last year I went to an executive exam.
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I think I talked about that uh when I was telling you about the intergator reset, right?
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How to how to do that breathing.
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Uh I went to an executive exam up in Ohio.
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And I was excited to take.
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I felt like I had studied for this test.
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And my numbers came back incredible.
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And it did something to me, right?
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It made me feel better.
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I'm invigorated.
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I've been able to keep the weight off.
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My energy levels are higher.
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I look better and younger than I had.
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It's interesting.
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A few years ago, I ran to a good friend of mine.
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He's sitting across the table from me.
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He goes, dude, you've aged 10 years in the last year.
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I was traveling all the time.
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I was eating junk.
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I was not monitoring.
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I wasn't getting the sleep that I needed.
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When I made the decision to make those changes, I felt better.
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I looked, I didn't look like I was aging every hour.
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And my results went up.
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You know, today I'm 54 years old, right?
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54 years old, and I physically feel the best that I have felt since probably early 20s.
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It's amazing when you stop and you focus and do small things daily, how that happens, right?
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How that happens.
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So again, another example of me talking to you, I'm not just telling you what to do.
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I'm telling you what I had to do and why this system works.
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Health is actually one of the purest forms of discipline, right?
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You don't accidentally become healthy.
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Nobody accidentally develops these big energy bursts.
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They don't accidentally build strength.
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Those things come from performing consistent habits.
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And as I said to you a while ago, it's making small decisions every day.
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I tell people all the time, where you're at today is a result of the decisions you made yesterday, but the decisions you make tomorrow or today determine where you're going to be tomorrow, right?
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Small decisions every single day, like what you eat, how much you move, what you put in your body, how well you sleep, how you manage stress.
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When we talk about compounding, right, when we compare that to interest with relationships, with habits and small tasks, understand that these choices, what you eat, how much you move, your sleep, how you manage your stress, those daily choices do compound over time.
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Over time.
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Hey, I'm taking a small boat out, need to put in the water.
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I pull up, get in the boat, fire it up, and it goes.
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It goes.
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When I want to go offshore, I go in, it goes.
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If I'm using trolling motors, and a lot of times what I do anyway, the night before, sometimes I'll go ahead and have the boat splash and I'll I call it plugging it in, but I hook up to make sure my batteries are charged.
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I have regular maintenance done and performed on both boats, right?
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When it's time for an oil change, that oil change is done.
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I got one boat that has two engines.
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It's not cheap to have the oil change, but I have to have both of them done.
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I want them checking the filters, I want them checking the pumps, I want them checking everything to make certain that it's performing at the level it needs to perform.
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When you're tournament fishing, you're running hard.
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I got to make certain that I'm not going to lose time because of something going on with the boat.
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One of the most important pieces of our equipment, one of the most important items that we have is the engines on the boat.
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If the engine isn't maintained, if something is wrong, you know what?
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It may leave the dock fine.
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But eventually, I'm going to have problems.
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And the further you go offshore, the bigger those problems and repercussions of those problems become.
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And when the engine breaks down, everything stops.
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You get that parallel?
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Do you get that parallel?
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Energy is at a leadership advantage.
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Something I've learned over the years is that energy is contagious.
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High energy people influence rooms.
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They influence teams.
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They influence conversations.
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People are naturally drawn to people who show up with energy and enthusiasm, but energy doesn't come from motivational speeches.
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I've told you that, right?
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I've told you, I don't believe in motivation.
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I think motivation is a result of action.
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I don't think it creates the action.
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Energy comes from taking care of your body.
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Taking care of your body.
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Be hydrated, right?
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Be hydrated.
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Be rested.
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Be clear.
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When I talk about health, I'm really talking about four areas, right?
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Number one is movement.
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You may not believe this, but your body was designed to move.
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Right now, look, your arms, you can move, I move my arms around right here.
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Clapping my hands.
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Your body was designed to move.
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Walking, strength training, exercise.
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You I'm not asking you to become a professional athlete.
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I'm asking to take care of what you got.
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Your body needs movement.
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Movement increases energy.
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Movement increases and improves mental clarity.
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When I said to you, you wake up in the morning, the G on your on your daily disciplines, right?
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Get clear.
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Get clear.
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Move.
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Get clear.
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And movement?
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It improves your mood.
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It puts you in a better mood.
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Nutrition?
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Jennifer, my wife, for years was a fitness trainer, right?
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And she always told me that what you put in your body matters.
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She would tell me over and over again, food is fuel.
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When you're able to enjoy the food and it does good things for your body, that's a great combination, right?
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Food is fuel.
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But if you consistently put low-quality fuel in your system, you eventually were going to feel it.
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If I get water in the gas on my boats, I'm in trouble, right?
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I got to put the right fuel in it to perform at the highest possible level.
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If you put low-quality fuel into your system, just like my boat, let me tell you what's going to happen.
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You're going to have energy crashes, you're going to have lack of focus, you're going to have poor recovery.
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Nutrition is not about perfection, right?
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It just means you're making better choices more often.
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The most underrated performance tool in existence has to be sleep.
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When you sleep, your brain is resetting.
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Your body's repairing.
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Your hormones actually regulate.
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Your energy restore.
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It's like it's like plugging in your iPhone or putting it on that magnetic charger.
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Your energy is getting restored.
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Lack of sleep, poor sleep, it will destroy the performance.
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The fourth one I like to talk about when I talk about health is stress management.
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I'm gonna tell you, stress is absolutely a part of life.
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Unmanaged stress is absolutely dangerous.
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That's why things like the breathing exercise we talked about earlier, having quiet time, reflection, spending time outdoors, they all matter.
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These habits help reset your nervous system.
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You know, uh living where I live and loving, I have an 8 o'clock meeting every single morning.
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And when I'm not on the road and I'm in town, I like to get up about 4.30 to get clear, get my head right.
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And a lot of times I'll do that standing on the bow of my boat watching the sun come up.
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I'm back at the dock by 7.15, 7.30, and I'm dressed, had a cup of coffee, ready for my meeting at 8 o'clock.
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When I'm looking at the 50, 60, 100 people on the screen on this meeting, I realize that I probably started my day differently than every one of them.
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But I had my quiet time.
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I had my reflection.
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I had some time outdoors, and my stress, my stress didn't start in the morning, right?
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I eliminated it and did give didn't give it the opportunity to be there.
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It it helps, like I said, to reset that nervous system.
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And my advice to you on this is to find that quiet time, a place you can reflect.
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Sometimes just taking a 20-minute walk would change everything.
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Your body was meant to move.
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And doing that can help you reset, right?
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The integrated philosophy on health is it's actually very simple.
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You don't have to be perfect, but I need you to be intentional.
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You have to recognize that your health is not separate from your, they're not two different things.
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It's not separate from your success.
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I think it's the foundation of it.
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If your mind is a commander center, your body is the engine, they both have to be strong.
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I want you to remember what I said from episode one, and I'll say it every single time.
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Inside every person listening to this, you that's listening to this right now, I hope you're listening to it while you walk.
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You get your AirPods in, you're walking, you're moving, you're listening to this, and you're smiling, but inside of you there's greatness.
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That greatness is your innergator.
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But greatness requires energy.
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It requires stamina.
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It requires strength.
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It requires a lot of strength.
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Those things come from taking care of your body, right?
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From protecting your health.
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My challenge for you this week is pick up one health habit to improve.
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Just one.
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Maybe it is walking 20 minutes a day.
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Maybe it's drinking more water.
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Hey, wake up to water.
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Remember that.
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Wake up to water.
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Get up in the morning.
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First thing you do as you're getting clear is you drink water.
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Your body's been sitting there sleeping all night.
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You are dehydrated.
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Drink water.
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Get the juices flowing.
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Get better sleep.
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Go to the gym three times this week.
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Maybe it's one of those, right?
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But small changes repeated consistently create powerful results.
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Let me say that again.
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It just hit me.
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Small changes repeated consistently create powerful, powerful results.
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All right, next week we're going to be moving into the third pillar of the integrated, right?
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We've talked about the mind, we've talked about health.
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And this one sits right in the center of the philosophy.
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And that's relationships.
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Because greatness is not achieved alone, it is achieved through optimizing relationships.
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I hope you enjoyed this episode.
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I hope it helps you.
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I hope that you will commit to do something this week health-wise and win the week.
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Win it.
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And I look forward to talking to you next week.
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Thanks, guys.
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Everybody, thank you so much for listening to the Finding Your Inner Gator podcast.
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You know, if today's episode helped you, share it with someone who needs to hear this message.
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Remember, greatness is achieved through discipline, intentional action, and optimizing the relationships around you.
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I look forward to getting with you next week.
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Now, go Gatorize your day.
