I'm back after a hectic week! Sometimes life throws a bunch of stuff at you and you've got to become good at shuffling pots around on the stove. Sometimes it works out, other times not so much.

After a complicated week of holidays, real estate sales, and everything else that could get messed up it was important for me to hit the ground running today and get back on the horse.

Whether life has thrown you some curves or whether it's just a matter of slipping on your diet over the holidays, it's important that you don't dwell on it. That doesn't get you anywhere. Instead focus on getting up, dusting yourself off, learning, and hopping back up on that business/life/nutrition/exercise horse and getting back on your journey.

Stop Blindly Chasing Your Goals!

At Relentless we don't view our work as just a place where people get in better shape or improve their performance. They do, and it's awesome, but there's a lot more to it than that.

We're a transformation center.

That means that we take people and we help them become the best versions of themselves, which often includes way more than just lifting some weights and doing some sprints. The real issue most people seem to have when it comes to accomplishing their goals is that they often go at them blindly. They don't get a firm fix on where they are now but they just know they don't want to be there.

That's like knowing that your goal is to drive to San Diego, me giving you a map, and not telling you if you're in Bangor, ME or Charleston, SC. Sure, eventually you could probably puzzle it out, but it's going to be a lot harder.

There are four key areas to tackle when it comes to baselining, and I'm going to hit you with both the theory AND the actual measures in this podcast.

So get ready to take the blinders off, take a real look at where you are now, and get ready to hit your goals with a true, lazer-like focus.

One of the things that kills me about the fitness business is how everyone wants all these amazing results but refuses to change their lifestyle.

Newsflash!

If you keep doing the same stuff that you're doing now, whether it's in fitness, business, relationships, or whatever, you're going to keep getting the results that you've been getting. There's nothing wrong with that, if you're happy with where you are.

If you're not, however, and you want some extraordinary results... then you're going to have to do extraordinary things to get them and you'll have to adopt an extraordinary lifestyle. Stop half-assing and expecting full-ass results.

If you're looking for a free, simple, and effective way to recover better, feel better, live healthier, be more productive, have better relationships, and basically take everything currently in your life and upgrade it... Then you need to sleep better.

Let's be honest. You don't get enough sleep. You get enough to get by, but not enough to excel. I know, because often I'm in the same boat.

The truth is that if you get enough good sleep, you will be able to do WAY more with the time that you're awake. Probably more productivity than you'd get from the time gained from skipping the sleep in the first place.

That's not even considering the health benefits of sleep, or the risks of not getting it. High blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, lowered immune system function, more body fat, lower testosterone and growth hormone, diabetes, and the list goes on. So in this podcast I'm going to tell you how to set up your super sleep lair, a trick to get into better sleep, and whether or not those sleeping pills are good for you or whether they are possibly more harm than they are effective.

So many gurus of the self-help business want you to control your feelings by controlling your thoughts. That's all well and good, but the problem comes up when they ask you to mask your feelings with thinking nothing but happy thoughts.

The truth is that we move away from pain and towards pleasure. However, the drive to move towards pleasure is often not as strong as moving away from pain. It's actually pretty easy to get stuck at a low level of pleasure because it's better than pain. If we mask our pain and just seek out pleasure, then often times we'll miss our big goal because we get sidetracked along the way.

Feel the pain that pushes and moves you. It's ok to feel it. Just feel it and use it to never feel it again.

Sometimes a rant gets a little sidetracked! When the mic is on and you get in a mood... What can I say?

You know what holds back most people who start a training program, especially New Year's Resolutioners?

It's the Snowflake Phenomenon.

See, here's the deal.

It's true that every snowflake is unique. That's wonderful. The idea floating around the personal development world is that every person, like the snowflakes, is unique. That's awesome, and it's true.

BUT.

Snowflakes are all made from frozen water.

They're all crystalline.

They all fall from clouds.

Basically, snowflakes are like 80 or 90% the same as each other. It's only the shape, that 10 to 20% that is different.

People are the same way. And that's what we say we want: The simple answer that will work for everyone. But if we get it, we immediately point to our shape and say how we're different. You can't have it both ways, snowflake.