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Ep3: Three Princples of Success as It Could Apply to Bodybuilding
Episode 3 • 24th August 2023 • JustAskMarc Bodybuilding and Fitness • Marc David
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Hey there, podcast enthusiasts and bodybuilding aficionados! Get ready to pump up your life with Episode 3: "Three Principles of Success as It Could Apply to Bodybuilding." This episode is a powerhouse of inspiration, and I'm here to give you a sneak peek into what's in store. Buckle up, grab your protein shake, and let's dive in!

Principle 1: Effort - Take Action!

  • Take Action: Don't just dream; start moving towards your goals.
  • Take Your Best Shots in Life: Give everything you've got, whether in the gym or in life.
  • Beware of Discouragement: It's your number one opponent. Don't let setbacks hold you back.

Principle 2: Focus - Swing for Something Specific!

  • Swing for Something Specific: Set clear, achievable goals.
  • Avoid Distraction: Stay focused and patient.
  • Gain Momentum: Keep moving forward, even when things get tough.

Principle 3: Reason - Make an Informed Decision!

  • Make an Informed Decision: Research before you leap, whether it's a new supplement or a training program.
  • What Should I Focus My Effort On?: Pick a single goal and go for it.
  • How to Best Use Your Time: It's not just about spending time in the gym; it's about making the most of it.

These principles aren't just words; they're a way of life. Whether you're a seasoned bodybuilder or just starting your fitness journey, these insights can transform the way you approach your goals. So grab a pen, paper, or your favorite note-taking app, and get ready to change your life!

Key Takeaways

  • Print Your Workout: Have a plan, and you'll be more efficient and focused.
  • Defeat Discouragement and Distraction: With a clear plan and specific goals, you can overcome these common obstacles.
  • Apply These Principles to Life: Whether it's bodybuilding, business, or personal growth, these principles are universal.

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Ready to take your bodybuilding and fitness journey to the next level? Tune in to this episode and let these principles guide you to success. And hey, why not share your thoughts and progress with our community? We're all in this together!

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Sometime ago I ran across a list called The Three Principles

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of Success by Jimmy D Brown.

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Now, who is Jimmy D Brown?

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Is he a famous bodybuilder or a workout guru or what?

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No.

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Jimmy's actually an internet marketer that helps you run your business.

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Now, when I first wrote down these three principles of success, I

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obviously was applying it to my business and how to run it successfully.

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Make sure that my customers and people who listened to this podcast got as much out

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of it as they could try to get structure.

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So all these principles of success were geared towards

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business when Jimmy wrote them.

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But I did take notes and when I started looking at this list over

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and over, I started to realize, hey, these three principles of success.

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Obviously it was geared towards business, but it could be three principles of

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success for bodybuilding and fitness.

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So here's what I want you to do.

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Now, a lot of you listening on the podcast, have it on your

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iPods or some different type of a player maybe in your car.

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If you're listening at your computer though, or you listen to

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this later and you do have a pen and paper and or a pencil handy.

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I want you to take notes because I took notes, and trust me, when you look

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at this on a piece of paper, a single piece of paper, it will make a massive

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difference in how you achieve your bodybuilding and fitness and health goals.

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As an update, you can use whatever note taking system you like

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as long as you can remember this later.

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I can't believe I said pen and pencil and paper.

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Now back to the show.

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Now, I know that when Jimmy wrote this, he was talking about business.

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But business is just like bodybuilding.

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And I mean by that, there are principles, there are rules, there are fundamentals

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you can follow, you can get organized.

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There are things that will derail your business.

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There are things that will derail your fitness quests.

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If you write down these three principles and start applying them to what you're

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trying to achieve today, you'll be amazed.

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Now here's what I'm gonna do.

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I'm gonna go very slowly over each principle and the bullet points.

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I'm gonna expand on the bullet points, but what I want you to write down

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is just those bullet points and what you're gonna have at the end result

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is just a very simple short list.

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And if, of course, if you need any, want to go back and listen to

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this particular podcast to get the gist of those bullet points, you

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welcome to do so let's get started.

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Three principles of success.

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The first principle is the principle of effort.

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Take action.

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That's your bullet point there.

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Take action.

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A lot of times when bodybuilding and fitness and you start to talk

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to people about what they should do, there's so much information out there.

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They almost have a mental overload.

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They have no idea where to start.

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They don't even know which training program or how to eat.

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Taking action moving forward in some capacity, no matter how small is movement.

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So you wanna start taking action.

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That's also applies to any type of a business or just about thinking

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clearly, writing clearly how to write a memo, how to write a

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note, how to start doing anything.

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The hardest part is actually taking action.

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In fact, my own personal experiences.

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It's very difficult for me to create a budget.

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I can talk about a budget.

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I can tell you why I need a budget, but I cop out and make an excuse.

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The one thing that I've never done is actually sat down

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and taken the first step.

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So the principle of effort, the first bullet point, take action.

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Take your best shots in life.

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Now that just applies generally across the board.

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Give it your best.

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Give everything that you can.

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When you go into the gym, when you start thinking about fitness, when

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you read up on this, when you listen to podcasts, when you go search out

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for more information, whatever you're doing, take your best shots in life.

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Keep that in mind.

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Your number one opponent to this principle is discouragement.

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And that's actually.

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In business, it applies there, and I certainly think that you understand that

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it applies to health and fitness as well.

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Your number one opponent is discouragement.

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So many people get very discouraged when they don't see immediate

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changes, they don't see the results fast enough, or you start hitting a

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plateau and they start coming slower.

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You're not getting what you want.

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You have an injury.

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You get very discouraged.

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I had a shoulder injury from snowboarding.

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I was very discouraged that I couldn't work out my shoulders

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and do some of the workouts.

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But the number one opponent for this principle of effort is discouragement.

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The second principle is the principle of focus.

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So swing for something specific.

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That's your bullet point there.

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Swing for something specific.

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Now, this will come across in another bullet point, but when we're talking

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bodybuilding and fitness, when you wanna swing for something specific,

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when you know what goal you wanna achieve, specifically, not just some

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lofty goal, I wanna lose weight, I wanna gain a hundred pounds.

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You wanna lose five pounds in a given month, lose five pounds of fat.

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I want to be able to bench press 315 pounds in 12 weeks.

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You can start to see that when you start talking and thinking on a very specific

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goal, you can get very focused and very narrowed and achieve that goal when

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you start talking in generalizations.

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I just wanna get big.

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I just wanna lose weight.

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What does that mean?

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Who knows what it means?

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When you wanna swing for something specific, it can mean anything

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in this particular industry, but make sure you know what it is

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that you're trying to accomplish.

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And of course, you can definitely go in cylindrical cycles.

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You can bulk, you can cut, you can do whatever you wanna do,

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but swing for something specific.

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Now your number two opponent for the principle of focus is distraction.

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Distraction because impatience.

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This could be a bullet point too.

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Impatience is the forerunner to failure, and the other bullet

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point is you need to gain momentum.

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Now, let's go back to the impatience.

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What is impatience is the forerunner to failure?

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What I've seen a lot of times in my bodybuilding forms,

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people are very impatient.

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About swinging for something specific.

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They get distracted and the first thing they wanna do is either take

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illegal drugs, pro hormones, steroids, supplements, liposuction, crazy training

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programs to gain weight to, to gain muscle, because they're impatient.

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They simply can't wait for this to happen.

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They're getting discouraged.

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Because they're not seeing the results fast enough.

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They're getting impatient.

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They're willing to try almost anything, whether it's safe or a

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fad diet or whatever that you can think of, when you start getting

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impatient, you can already see.

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That's the forerunner to failure and that goes, especially in

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something like bodybuilding and fitness, where it is a lifestyle.

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It's something that you want to do for a very long time.

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I hope I'm right for most people listening to this podcast.

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That when you start to get impatient, you get discouraged.

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You start making the wrong choices and the wrong decisions.

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So you've got to focus.

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And that's why when you go for something specific, it's much easier to target

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and narrow down your thoughts and you research and whatever else you're

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gonna do, rather than all these generalizations and all this information

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that could be going around in your head.

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Now the other bullet point was you need to gain momentum.

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When you start getting focused and you start going through, so something very

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specific, and you start taking action and you start gaining momentum and you

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start moving, talk to an experienced, advanced bodybuilder, and you'll soon

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find out that once they start working out, they start knowing the body.

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They start understanding more and more exercises, how to do it, getting

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excited about going to the gym.

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That's momentum.

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All of a sudden they get injured, they get sick, they're outta

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the game for a couple weeks.

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They take a vacation.

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Guess what?

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They still have that momentum behind them, so when they come back or recover

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from the injury, they're ready to go.

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What happens when you don't gain a lot of momentum is you start

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to do something you're impatient.

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It's a little bit half-assed on the way.

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You don't really have the momentum behind you.

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You get distracted.

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All of a sudden you fall off the bandwagon.

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You're not doing the proper eating habits again.

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You're not going to the gym.

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Something's distracted.

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You didn't have that momentum behind you to keep you going, so

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you need to gain the momentum.

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Now, the third principle is the principle of reason.

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Make an informed decision.

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Now, of course in business you can understand, oh, make an informed decision.

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Sure, but what does that apply to?

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Bodybuilding, fitness or business or whatever, make an informed decision.

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I've talked several times in this podcast.

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I use supplements, whatever supplement is available legally to my advantage.

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If I've researched it and it's something that I want to take,

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then I'll take it however.

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Key word being researched.

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So make an informed decision.

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Now, whether it's doing something like a training program, taking a supplement,

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starting a new style of diet, calculating your calories, whatever the heck you're

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going to do, make an informed decision.

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It also applies to buying a car, buying a house.

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In other words, if you're going to go out and you're gonna take a supplement,

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you're gonna try a new training program.

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Go out and do what you can to research.

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About that.

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Find out the ingredients in the supplement.

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Find out what other people have said.

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Call the company if you have any questions on how to take it or

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if it interacts with a particular medication that you're taking.

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Whatever you want to make uninformed decision.

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You don't wanna just find something in a magazine, see the guy flexing, or

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the woman who's got super ripped abs and decide that's for you, and just go

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buy it and then figure out you didn't like it, or it made you feel bad.

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So you wanna make an informed decision, because that's part

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of the principle of reason.

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The second bullet point is, what should I focus my effort on?

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That applies to anything, but again, when you're talking about health and fitness,

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what should you focus your effort on?

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So what goal are you going to pick?

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Because in the second principle, you were swinging for something specific.

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Now you've gotta figure out what should I focus my effort on?

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I've talked.

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Several times about people who want to gain muscle and lose fat at the same time.

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They really wanna know if it's possible.

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Now, sure, it technically is possible and that's really the

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answer they want to hear 'cause they wanna do both at the same time.

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But if you go back and you think about this bullet point, and if you're

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really writing it down on a sheet of paper and you keep looking at that,

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what should I focus my effort on?

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You've gotta figure that question out.

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Because you'll be a hundred times more efficient when you pick a single goal

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and you swing for something specific.

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I hope you can see them using the things in these principles of success is to

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go back to make you understand that you definitely want to focus and go

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for certain goals because you will be more efficient if you wanna get in the

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best cardiovascular shape of your life.

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Do you wanna keep pumping really heavy weights, doing a little bit of cardio

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and some jogging and some running?

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Or do you really wanna make an informed decision, focus in on how

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to get in the best cardio shape of your life and then go right for that?

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It's just like when you think of a professional athlete, a marathon runner,

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they're very specific and they're very focused on what they want to do.

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All of their training, all of their eating is around a single objective.

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And so they're very good at what they do.

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In other words, if you took a marathon runner and you asked him to do a 400 yard

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sprint, he wouldn't do very well at all.

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Or if you take one of the world record 400 meter distance runners, and you

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ask him to go ahead and just run a 26 kilometer or 26 mile or whatever have

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you, long marathon, you realize that, hey, they didn't place in the top 10.

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Why not?

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Because they weren't training for that specific goal.

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They were very focused on what they needed to do, and that

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was sprinting and quick starts.

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And a marathon runner is cardiovascular and endurance.

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So the same applies to you.

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What are you trying to do?

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Do you wanna get lean?

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Do you wanna lose some fat?

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Do you wanna bulk up and build muscle?

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Do you just want to generally be in shape?

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Once you understand exactly what you want to do, you can really focus and fine

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tune your efforts to achieve that goal.

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Now here's a great one, another great bullet point

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under the principle of reason.

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It's not how to use your time, it's how to best use your time.

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Think about that.

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You have 60 minutes to go into the gym.

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It's not how to use your time, it's how to best use your time.

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So when you find training programs or whatever you're doing, if you have 60

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minutes to go in the gym, How can you get the most work done in that 60 minutes?

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Now, there's other people that are going to the gym and

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they're just using your time.

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They're using time.

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Hey, I was in the gym for an hour today.

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They're just doing that first part.

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They're just using the time.

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If you go in and you super set and you have a stopwatch with you, and you have

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a written workout plan of what you're gonna do, how many sets, how many reps

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you're trying to achieve, what weight you're going to use, I print my workouts.

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I print my workout every time I go into the gym.

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And why?

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Because it's how to best use my time.

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As an update, I use apps nowadays to track my workouts that include

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some type of progress even if it's just adding 5 lbs to the bar.

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When I go into the gym, I know exactly what I wanna do.

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I've got a stopwatch and I can do a whole lot of volume and a whole lot of reps,

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and a whole lot of work in 60 Minutes.

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The other guy next to me, he's using his time.

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He was in the gym for 60 minutes too, but he was taking more of a rest, and

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he was being a little more chatty.

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So think about that.

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The principal reason, it's not how to use your time.

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It's how to best use your time.

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So there you have it.

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The three principles of success by Jimmy D.

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Brown, who is an internet marketer by the way, and he was talking about

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how to apply this to your business.

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But I see no reason why you can't apply this to bodybuilding and

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fitness because to some of you, like it is to me, it is my business.

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So if you were able to write these down and at least go back and maybe give this

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podcast a second, listen to, and you're looking at these right in front of you,

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you'll start to understand exactly how you can quickly and easily achieve your goals.

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And the reason that I say that is because if you are focusing on effort

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and you've got your focus down and you've got your reason down, You start

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to swing for, things that are specific.

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You know what you need to focus on.

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You've made informed choices and decisions.

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When you go to the gym, it could be 45 minutes.

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You are best using your time.

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You're not just going in for 45 minutes and doing some stuff.

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You're going in there with a plan.

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It's very easy to print off a workout before you go to the gym, even if it's

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not the best workout in the world.

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If you've printed it off and you have it in your hand.

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Trust me, it will make a world of difference to how quickly

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and efficiently you can move through and what you can get done.

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In fact, it was funny.

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I came back from vacation just recently and I didn't print off my workout.

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I, when I come back from vacation, I out at about 60% intensity,

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so I didn't want to go too hard.

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And I went into the gym and I was just doing some stuff.

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Literally I just was gonna work shoulders and triceps, but I didn't have a plan.

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So I was just doing some stuff.

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I just wanna get back into it.

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And one of my friends came up and he is like, Hey, what's up man?

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Where's the sheet?

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Where's your workout sheet?

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You don't know what you're gonna do today if you don't have that sheet now.

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He was right.

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He was absolutely right.

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I didn't know what I was gonna do now.

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I was coming back from a break, and so really I didn't have a plan.

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I just wanted to generally just get back into the swing of things.

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And I didn't wanna go very hard, but he's absolutely right.

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I don't know what I'm gonna do if I don't have that sheet in front of me.

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And so for you, if you're focused and you're swinging for something specific

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and you take action, Just one of the small things you can do is make sure

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that you've got a printed workout.

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When you go to the gym, it will make a world of difference and all you have to

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do is find a workout that you like to be anywhere on the internet, whatever.

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Try something new and the first thing is take action.

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And you know what take action is in that particular regards, whatever

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operating system that you're using, it's called the print function.

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That's your take action.

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That is as hard as it has to be.

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When you print your workout off and you take it to the gym, you have taken action.

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You are defeating the number one opponent, which is discouragement.

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And you're also gonna defeat number two opponent, which is distraction, because

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now you've got a plan in front of you.

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And when you have a plan, that usually gets discouragement.

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And when you have a plan, it also helps to eliminate distraction.

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So the simple part of taking action in that example is just the print key.

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That's all you have to do.

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Now if you have any questions for this podcast or maybe one of these principles

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didn't make sense to you, you can go ahead and send me an email to Marc.

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That's m a r c.

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It's Marc with a C at.

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