On Purpose with Jay Shetty - Ed Mylett ON: How to Break Down Your Goals Into Achievable Steps & Simple Ways to Create Positive Daily Habits

Episode Date: April 10, 2023

Today, I sit down with Ed Mylett to talk about the value of forming positive habits. Ed and I discuss how changing our mindset into doing one more thing daily can lead to achieving more goals, finding... every opportunity as a growth ladder, and learning how to appreciate the talent you have in you to help improve your life.  Ed Mylett is an entrepreneur, speaker, author, and high-performance coach. He is known for his motivational speaking and coaching on leadership, personal development, and peak performance. He has a large following on social media and hosts a podcast called "The Ed Mylett Show," where he interviews successful people and shares insights on how to achieve success and fulfillment in life. His latest book, The Power of One More is an indispensable roadmap to realizing and exceeding your personal and professional goals by tapping into the superpowers and gifts you already have inside you. You can order my new book 8 RULES OF LOVE at 8rulesoflove.com or at a retail store near you. You can also get the chance to see me live on my first ever world tour. This is a 90 minute interactive show where I will take you on a journey of finding, keeping and even letting go of love. Head to jayshettytour.com and find out if I'll be in a city near you. Thank you so much for all your support - I hope to see you soon. What We Discuss: 00:00 Intro 04:14 When you’re one step away from changing the trajectory of your life 06:37 The difference of stacking one more day to completely change yourself 10:34 If you can survive the temporary, there’s growth at the end of every phase 12:04 Separate yourself from the outcome and just be present in the moment 16:49 “You only understand the power of one day when you’re threatened with never having another one.” 20:47 What’s your ‘one more’ that you’re working on right now? 23:11 “Just don’t quit for one more day and see how it goes.” 27:05 Why should you start doing one more thing to achieve what you think you truly deserve? 30:54 Make it a habit to always ask yourself, “What matters to me now?” 34:08 Don’t discount your own greatness because we all are born to do something great Episode Resources Ed Mylett | Website Ed Mylett | Instagram Ed Mylett | YouTube Ed Mylett | Twitter Ed Mylett | Facebook Ed Mylett | TikTok Ed Mylett | Books The Ed Mylett Show Want to be a Jay Shetty Certified Life Coach? Get the Digital Guide and Workbook from Jay Shetty https://jayshettypurpose.com/fb-getting-started-as-a-life-coach-podcast/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:01:50 The number one health and wellness podcast. I'm on purpose with Jay Shetty. Hey everyone, welcome back to On Purpose, the number one health podcast in the world, thanks to each and every one of you that come back every week to become happier, healthier and more healed. And actually, I need to start saying every day because I know so many of you listen episodes every single day.
Starting point is 00:02:10 So thank you so much for a daily, weekly, monthly, yearly listness. And I am so excited to be talking to you today. I can't believe it. My new book, Eight Rules of Love is Out. And I cannot wait to share with you. I am so so excited for you to read this book. For you to listen to this book, I read the audiobook. If you haven't got it already, make sure you go to eight rules of love.com. It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep or let go of love. So if you've got friends that are dating, broken up,
Starting point is 00:02:44 or struggling with love, make sure you grab this book. And I'd love to invite you to come and see me for my global tour. Love rules. Go to jsheddytour.com to learn more information about tickets, VIP experiences, and more. I can't wait to see you this year. And today, I am so excited for this, because last time he was on the show, you guys went nuts. Like, the response was unbelievable, and I had so much phenomenal feedback from this conversation.
Starting point is 00:03:14 And today, I'm gonna be talking to you about his new book, which I want you to go and grab. It's already sold a million copies, so it's tried and tested. This book is called The Power of One More, the Ultimate Guide to happiness and success by the one only Ed Mylett, the host of Max Out, make sure you go and read that book as well if you haven't already and listen to the podcast. And before we dive in, I just want to say by Ed that Ed is one of the strongest,
Starting point is 00:03:41 toughest and kindest people I know. And I think that balance is just so unique if you saw him You'd be like this guy's gonna like beat me up But then you get to know his heart and you just like wow, I didn't know you could have both and you have both So I'm so you have a strong heart to you, but I appreciate it I'm so excited to talk about this. And I'll tell you why. Because as I was looking through this, this resonates so deeply with someone who's always had to do the power of one more.
Starting point is 00:04:17 And I don't know many people who know this. So when I first started, I had a video series idea that I was pitching to lots of topics, execs and top companies. And they all said, no one cares about meditation, mindfulness, based content. So rejected. Then I ended up pitching to editors in chief. And I started mismeeting all these people and networking at events, trying to get them to notice me and see what I could do. And they all said, you're too old or you're too young, you're too overqualified or you're too underqualified. They were all of these statements,
Starting point is 00:04:53 so then I was out there that didn't work. I then ended up at an ethnic minority TV training day in the UK and they were training, I walked into this room, I was just six brown and black people and they were teaching us how to be TV presenters. And I went there to just check whether I even had good skills to present,
Starting point is 00:05:11 because I was starting to doubt myself. It turns out you did. At the end of it, at the end of it, they were like, Jay, you've got some really good skills. I was like, awesome, like give me a job, like give me anything. I'll start like 15,000 pounds a year,
Starting point is 00:05:23 like I don't care. They said Jay, there's no jobs in media. And so I was like, well, what do you want me to do? And they would like start a YouTube channel. And I was like, well, that works for Justin Bieber. Like that's like for one in a billion people. It's not going to work for me. And it's really interesting. I read a Thomas Edison quote, and this is why this book is just this book is this quote. I'm about to share with you, but with every tactic, with every skill, with every tip, quotes are beautiful. Books are life changing, right? This quote by Thomas Edison said, when you feel you've exhausted all options,
Starting point is 00:05:55 remember this you haven't. I love that. That's the power of one more. And so I have lived this book in my life. Like I have lived this mindset and it has changed my life because I've always been just one step away, one habit away, one mindset away from this amazing life that I'm grateful and blessed to live.
Starting point is 00:06:15 Well, that's the truth, right? You're right. And I think the great lie in life is that I, you know, some scriptures say, well, where there's no vision the people will perish. Whatever your scriptures are. Really, do you have no vision? If you ask the average person, you wanna be happier scriptures say, well, where there's no vision the people will perish. Whatever your scriptures are. Do you have no vision? If you ask the average person, you want to be happy or sad, what's your vision?
Starting point is 00:06:29 They'd say, I want to be happy. You want to be rich or poor. Most people say, I'd like to be rich. Do you want to contribute or make no difference in the world? I want to contribute. Do you want beautiful memories or no memories? I want memories. So there's a vision.
Starting point is 00:06:40 Our issue is depth perception. We think it's further away than it is. And because we think it's so far away, Jay, we create patterns and behaviors in our life that perpetually keep it there. Ooh, and that's what we do in our life. But what if that's the great lie of life? And what if the truth is that you're one relationship away,
Starting point is 00:07:00 one meeting away, one conversation, one podcast, one interview, one new thought, one new emotion, one new tactic or strategy away from completely changing the trajectory of your life. And every one that you and I know that we both work with that we're blessed to work with in our lives. The truth is it was one decision, one meeting, one extra rep, one more phone call, one thing they did that changed their trajectory, then the question then becomes how do I do it? And so the strategies are in the book, but conceptually, that's 100% how you change your life.
Starting point is 00:07:33 Yeah, and you're so right, I was thinking about this this morning, last year I had double honey surgery on the front. So I couldn't walk for about a month. And when I said I couldn't walk, I mean, like, I literally couldn't. Oh my gosh. It was like, I was, like, I felt like I was teaching myself to walk again. Like, that's how it felt. It's really interesting what you just said about how we perpetually push it far away.
Starting point is 00:07:58 I would wake up every morning and my mind or my initial mindset was like, it will be gone today. It must have gone today. Like, today it will be fully like, it will be gone today. It must have gone today. Like today will be fully healed. I'll be fine today. And I'll wake up and I wouldn't be. And I would feel like healing was so far away. Yes.
Starting point is 00:08:17 It would be like 80% away that I was missing out on the 1% change since yesterday. You got it. Since yesterday, I made 1% change. I wasn't feeling the same pain in my nerves. I was able to be flexible by 1% more. Yes. And I was missing out on all of that
Starting point is 00:08:34 because I was so obsessed with how far I was. That's the journey. And the thing that happens is when you live with an expectation that these 1-mores exist, the reticular activating system in your mind filters them into your awareness. I reticular activating system in your mind filters them into your awareness. I call it the matrix in the second chapter of the book. When you wake up believing, hey, I'm one decision away, I'm one meeting away, one relationship away.
Starting point is 00:08:53 That's not hokey. Your mind begins to filter the people, places, and things into your awareness. You develop something called sensory acuity. You hear conversations you weren't hearing. We've all had that experience work. We're on an airplane. I can't stop hearing these people over here. Or you walk in a loud room, but you can hear your own name auditorily over all the other names in the room. That's because it's important to you and it matters. You see things. And so when something becomes important to you and you believe it to be true, the RAS goes to proving it for you. And where I learned this, I run,
Starting point is 00:09:26 I talk about it in the book, is my father was an alcoholic and had tried to get sober many, many times. And I'll never forget it, Jay, we were driving to a baseball game of mine. My dad started crying. I'd never seen my dad cry before. And he pulls the car over,
Starting point is 00:09:40 and he still isn't looking at me, but he's crying and he says, Eddie, and then he turns to me and he goes, I'm gonna try to get sober and I'm never forget this brother. He goes one more time Wow, and I said really daddy. He goes, I'm gonna give it one more try And I said to him, I said, why would this be any different this time? And he said never said this to me before he goes because I love you and You deserve it father. You can be love you and you deserve it, father,
Starting point is 00:10:06 you can be proud of and you can't be proud of me right now. And I think every great thing we do in life is one away, but it's also born from love to talk about your book. When you love people or you love something so deeply, if that love is greater than what the obstacles might be, now you got a shot to do it, then my dad gets sober. He comes home from rehab.
Starting point is 00:10:26 I say, daddy, are you never gonna drink again? And he said, I can't promise you that. I can promise you I'm not gonna drink for one more day at a time. Wow. And he lasted the rest of his life, stacking those one more days up. And so I know the power of one more and Jake,
Starting point is 00:10:41 the other thing, I also know humans can change. I watched my hero do it. I watched my hero do it. I watched my dad live my first 15 years. So I'm in a lot of fights. Wow. A lot of lying, a lot of difficult times. And then I saw this man transform.
Starting point is 00:10:55 And in life, we're most qualified to help the person we used to be. And when we think in life, and I hope everybody gets this, we think the things we're most ashamed of, embarrassed by our divorce, our bankruptcy, or maybe we've just always been average and ordinary. This disqualifies me from being successful and happy. What if that's not true? What if the hardest things of your life are the very things that qualify you, I'll give you an example, you know, my dad got sober, somebody helped him. My dad was going to take
Starting point is 00:11:22 his life or lose his family. And I didn't know who it was till months ago. Some precious human being, whom I didn't know, and my dad's darkest hour of his life, J, said, I'll help you. I'll help you. Little to that person, no, I'd be his son. And I'd help millions of people, and I'd be on J Shetty Show,
Starting point is 00:11:39 and we both help millions of people. And the more ironic thing that this person helped my dad is what qualified them to help my dad. They were a drunk. They were an alcoholic. They at one time were a drug addict. They at one time were lying and stealing and living in the shadows.
Starting point is 00:11:54 The very thing that person probably figured that disqualifies me from having a successful life was the one thing that did qualify them to help my dad. So if you're listening to this, you've had something you're ashamed of or a failure, or a setback, you're most qualified to help the people you used to be. And that person, that alcoholism they suffered
Starting point is 00:12:12 with their drug addiction helped my dad live those one more days forever. Oh, that is the best explanation I've heard of how pain tends into purpose. The thing that brought you down, that broke you down, that made you feel like you are losing everything, gave you back everything when you used that to serve the people that were struggling with it. And then there's a purpose.
Starting point is 00:12:36 And you know, if you can survive the temporary pain in your life and all pain is temporary, I watched my father pass away last year, he was in tremendous pain. Even our bodies are terrible. Only our souls are permanent. If you can survive the temporary on the other side of temporary pain, you meet another version of yourself, another inside about yourself.
Starting point is 00:12:54 And that's why it's so important to grow as a person because the more we grow and become a new person, we can help those that used to be like us. And that's why you and I are so addicted to growing and learning and we're curious because if you used to be a broken person And you no longer are quite as broken you can help broken people if you used to be broke financially and you no longer are you can help people whatever you do for living at one time
Starting point is 00:13:15 You didn't know about it and now you do you can help those who need to know about it And so you're immensely qualified if you understand the power of doing one more. Oh, I love it. I love it. Tell me about, so let's say and you probably come up against us all the time. A lot of the people say, okay, I'm gonna practice that. I'm with you, Ed. I love you, and Jay. I'm listening and I go, yes,
Starting point is 00:13:36 I'm gonna practice the power of one more. Now, what I find, and this is why you're so great at teaching this, because you're not teaching it as a gimmick of glitch, you're like a little, a little affirmation. This is like real, it makes sense. Like it works. People get so tied to the result that when they try it the next day and the sales meeting doesn't go their way or the pitch doesn't go their way, they go, ah, it doesn't work. It doesn't work. Why didn't it work and how should we respond
Starting point is 00:14:07 when we fail to get rejected in this event? Well, it didn't work because you're so attached to the outcome. I coach a lot of athletes, I know you do as well. And one of the things that's a really new, nuanced thing in life, it's great to have goals. You should have goals. I want to do this or that.
Starting point is 00:14:18 But in the moment of execution, you have to separate from outcome in the moment that you're executing and just be present and exist. I talk about this in the book. Here's what I would say if you're going to win long-term. 95% of people have an operating system in their mind where they operate out of history and memory. Oh, I like that. And about 5% of humans operate out of vision and imagination.
Starting point is 00:14:42 So the reason we're so much happier, I believe when we're children, is we have no history in memory. So we operate of imagination and dreams and vision. But at some age, some people, it's five years old, some it's eight, some it's 18, some it's 28. They create a history and that history then becomes the operating system. So even if they take on a new behavior or tactic, they're operating out of a pattern of thought and belief
Starting point is 00:15:04 that's historic and memory based. And so the number one thing I would say is, begin to operate out of your imagination again out of your vision again, create from that place. If you create from that place, now you're not tied to the result in that moment. You're giving yourself space to imagine and create something new in your life. I'm Eva Longoria. I'm Mateo Gomes-Rechon. We're so excited to introduce you create something new in your life. I'm Eva Longoria. I'm Maite Gomes-Rachon. We're so excited to introduce you to our new podcast,
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Starting point is 00:18:38 I've never heard that in that language, man. That is so powerful. I use so right about his kids that we don't have any memory or history, so we don't his kids? Are we don't have any memory or history? So we don't have any blocks, we don't have any limits? And begin to listen to the people around you. People say, hey, you're the product of who you hang around. How do I know if they serve me or not? Here's one way to just deduce this, because they can be beautiful people who care about you.
Starting point is 00:18:59 And they might even support you. But when you're with them, what are you, you're of those friends you're with them, you're like, you remember when, you remember, you remember, you remember that party, remember that thing. And if your friends are constantly bringing you to the filtration system of memory and history all the time, think this through, how often are those friends saying,
Starting point is 00:19:17 hey, what are you working on now? Where are you going? What's your vision? What do you want to create? And maybe that sounds hokey, but you and I have some of the, some of our both our friends have the most amazing histories and you can't get them to talk about them. You have to work because what are they still doing? They're talking about now and where they're going. Their viewpoint in their life
Starting point is 00:19:36 is being present and having a vision for the future. A formula for misery, a formula for lack of creativity, lack of productivity, is constantly being a history and memory. Even if it's good, it doesn't serve us. And for most of it, it's not good. And we keep living from it or trying to move away from it. Create a new future, don't move away from the past. Create a brilliant, imaginative, curious, vibrant vision for your life.
Starting point is 00:20:03 Oh, I love that. Yeah, we're always trying to create the same past as opposed to a new future. A new future. And I find that what's really interesting about that, all the studies show that nostalgia makes us believe that the past was more phenomenal than it actually was. If you remember that party you went to a college. It's better in your memory than it actually was If you actually could have gone back and remembered how you thought hungover and what you broke a bone or whatever happened But now in your memory it's beautiful beautiful, right?
Starting point is 00:20:34 So our memory also is slightly warped of the past no question It can make things for much better or much worse sometimes no question But what's what's really coming out for me right now is this idea that it's something you said a couple of moments ago and it sparked a thought for me. I remember the story that Vanessa Brian told about Kobe Brian after he passed away. I was fortunate enough to interview him around three months before it before his tragic passing. And she told this story and she said that Kobe would play through every injury. He would play through every pain. He would play through everything, even on the doctors and his coaches would say, stop
Starting point is 00:21:12 playing. And she asked him, she said once, why he's still plays, right? Again, going back to our curiosity, not assuming you know your partner, she asked him, why do you still play? And this is just her and him. There's no cameras, there's no, she's telling this story, but at the time it was just them to. He said it's because there's someone
Starting point is 00:21:35 who's paid for a ticket today. They saved up, and this is the only time they're ever gonna be able to call. Maybe a son's, maybe a dad's board is kid, maybe someone's come to the game, they're a lifelong fan and they came today and today's the only day they're gonna get to see me and if I say I'm injured, they won't get to see me. So I'm gonna play so that person gets to see me play and then he goes and wins. Yes. And it's like that's love. That's love. That's what
Starting point is 00:22:03 you were saying. Love for something is in the present moment also, right? Love is not just for the past. And it's funny how important one day as man, when my dad got sick, my dad got cancer. When he first got sick, he goes, Hey, my dad was a dude. He goes, Look, I'll fight this one time. Okay, I'll do your little chemo and your surgery, but I'm not going to pour poison into my body. I'm not going to lose my hair. I'm not going to deteriorate. I'll give your little chemo in your surgery, but I'm not gonna pour poison into my body. I'm not gonna lose my hair. I'm not gonna deteriorate. I'll give this thing a shot once, but it doesn't work.
Starting point is 00:22:28 I'm out. That led to eight years of him fighting it. Wow. Chemo radiation proton therapy, surgery, surgery, chemo, experimental chemo, and he did lose his hair, and he wasn't pain. And I'd say to my dad, I say, dad, you're suffering so much, he said,
Starting point is 00:22:42 you wouldn't suffer. He said, no, Eddie, I'm in pain, but I'm not suffering. I choose not to suffer, and I'm not suffering because I get to see my grandkids again. And I said, Dad, why are you doing this? And he said, you only understand the power of one day when you're threatened with never having another one. I don't do anything for one more day.
Starting point is 00:23:04 Get to be with you one more time. Get to be with you one more time. Give your mom a kiss one more time. Maybe I'll see one of my granddaughters getting married and he goes, I'll do anything for one more day. The beautiful thing is I was actually with Kobe a week before he passed away. We were in the same gym, our daughters played volleyball. And ironically that day, I watched Kobe walk out of the gym.
Starting point is 00:23:26 There was only a couple of dads left. It was late at night. He stayed at I State. And he had his youngest daughter in his arm, and he was rubbing his other daughter's back. And I remember taking note of it, because I was with Bella the other end of the gym, and I remember thinking, I don't hug Bella enough.
Starting point is 00:23:43 I need to hug, no joke, bro. It's in the book. I went, I got to hug Bella enough. I need to hug, no joke, bro. It's in the book. I went, I got to hug Bella one more time every day. Not just once a day, plus one more time every day. My daughter's gonna get extra hugs because Kobe does that. What if I could have said that Kobe when he got in his car? Kobe. You have one more week, brother.
Starting point is 00:24:02 Tell those that you love, you love them. Get it right. Whoever matters love them. Get it right. Whoever matters to you, make it right. Call your dad. Make it right. Call your mom. Call your family. What if the day before you could have said,
Starting point is 00:24:13 call me. Have one day left. And my dad, same thing. I was with my dad when he had one day left. I was with my dad when he had one hour left. I was with my dad when he had one breath left. I was with my dad when he had one breath left. And when we begin to think of our life that way, the power of right now and having one more moment
Starting point is 00:24:31 and one more minute is so beautiful. It's so blessed, it's so big, it's so amazing. Why would we spend that minute in history? Why would we spend that minute in the past when we could be fully present and creating the future? And so, you know, I think most people think, Jay, everyone else is gonna die. I think they just, I'm never, I'm not gonna die. Or they go, I'll get around to be unhappy.
Starting point is 00:24:54 I'll get around to making my masterpiece of my life. I'll get around to my dreams. I'm gonna get around to fixing this relationship that's broken. I'm gonna get around to feeling those emotions. And then it's another day. And another day. And they keep it in the distance. I'm going to get around to fixing this relationship that's broken. I'm going to get around to feeling those emotions. And then it's another day and another day and they keep it in the distance until there are no more days. And I don't care if you're 18 years old listening to this, 28 or 48.
Starting point is 00:25:15 We don't know if we have one more day or 100 more days or 1000 more days. But we know this, they'll eventually be a time where we don't have anymore days. So why would we spend the ones that are coming looking at the past? And so my dad really taught me those lessons and watching and passed away, and that's why I have a whole thing in there of how to get 21 days a week, run many days, I get 21 days a week. We still measure time, bro, like it's 1900. Think about 1900.
Starting point is 00:25:43 If I want to get you a note, I'd have to write a letter out, stick it on the back of a horse's butt in 1850, 30 days later you get it. That was a 24 hour day. Now I can text you in two seconds, we measure time the same way. So I teach you how to change your time
Starting point is 00:25:57 so that you can make that day its maximum bliss, its maximum productivity. What's one more that you're working on right now? Right now, actually it's an interesting season of my life. I have a TV show that I did with NBC that's called Change that I think is, you know, as a chance of getting picked up. But one more that I'm working on right now for me and my life is my peace.
Starting point is 00:26:20 And so there's this guy, Jay Shetty, that's a friend of mine that Introduced me and my family to meditation and I'm giving myself the gift I don't just do it in the morning now. I've given myself the gift of one more time every single day I've just emptying my mind and trying to be fully present and it's been worked for me I've got that busy type of a mind, but I have found that my peace in my life. Most of us, Jay, have all these goals of things we want to do and they're wonderful. And I believe in doing that.
Starting point is 00:26:52 I think standards are more important than goals because, and I teach you in this book, how to set the standards that'll get those goals. But we really don't want the jet. We don't want the hit song. We don't want the amazing relationship. We don't want the million dollars. We don't want the amazing relationship. We don't want the million dollars. We don't want the we want how we think it'll make us feel. And
Starting point is 00:27:09 when if we begin to become more intentional and outcome oriented about the things we feel in our life, and it took me a while, but now that I'm older, when I feel strong, when I feel blissful, when I feel peaceful, is when I produce the physical things that I want, not the other way around. And so my one more is a more emotional focus. Most of us, then I'll come up for air here, have an emotional home. There's three or four or five emotions we experience
Starting point is 00:27:34 on a regular basis, I write about it in the book. And no matter what happens, we find a way, even if they don't serve us to get those emotions. If your emotional home is fear, anxiety, worry, depression, anger, you find a way every week to get that emotion. But what if that emotional home could become bliss and peace and joy and creativity and ecstasy? And so I'm working on one more beautiful emotion for my emotional home and for me, it's peace.
Starting point is 00:28:00 I love that. I love that answer, man. It's good to hear about what you've been saying. Like, we're not living in the past and you're like, in the present, but to have you answer that question, that piece is your presence. Like, that's what you're looking for. Like, that's, that's the present. And it shows that you're using this, like, it works. You're doing it time and time again. And I love what you said. It moves from the physical things into the subtle, into the emotional, into the, the deeper, right, I think that's so profound. What was that one more that if you didn't do it, you wouldn't be here today? What was one of those ones that like, ah, like that was the one that convinced me apart from obviously your father that you were like, ah, if I didn't do that, I wouldn't be in my lab today, I wouldn't be maxed out live.
Starting point is 00:28:41 The first business I built was a financial business and I had had some success, Jay. Like a lot of people do in life, and then it went backwards. And sometimes when you get up the flag pole just a little bit and you come back down, that's an emotional difficulty. Could be a relationship that was good that's gone or maybe it's safe some money that's gone, maybe it lost a bunch of weight and got fit
Starting point is 00:29:00 and you gained it back. For me, it was my business and I called my dad. It was a pretty wise guy now that he was sober. And because I could tell you, man, I do one more rep in the gym. I haven't done 10 reps on a bench press in 30 years. I've done 10 plus one more a lot though. I haven't done 45 minutes on a treadmill,
Starting point is 00:29:15 but I've done 45 plus one more minute. 10 contacts a day, never. 10 plus one more. But the biggest one more was actually something else. I called my dad and I said, hey, dad, it's not going. It's the business is crashing. And I'm running out of money. Our power was turned off. Our water was turned off, Jay. I had to take my wife every morning. We'd lost our house. We're living in an apartment now. Then the water got turned off. You can't cook. You can't bathe. There was a apartment building. We had an outdoor shower at the swimming pool.
Starting point is 00:29:47 And I'd have to wear newlyweds and I'd have to get up every morning, walk down there and I'd hold a towel up while my wife took her shower every day, outdoors, brush your teeth. And then she'd switch and hold the towel up for me. And I'd walk back up to the apartment and I was so amasculated, so ashamed, so embarrassed. And I was living a nightmare,
Starting point is 00:30:09 selling a dream to everybody every day. We can do this a lot of entrepreneurs or people can relate in their life. And anyway, I called my dad that night and I said, I think I need to pack it in. I need to go get a job. And just, this success thing is not, it's not for people like us.
Starting point is 00:30:29 And my dad goes, Eddie, you don't have to decide you're never gonna quit. He goes, just don't quit for one more day. See how you feel tomorrow. I go, Dad, he goes, just don't do it for one more day. And I got the next day and I still wanted to quit, but not quite as much. And then I went one more day and one more day and I found myself about 30 days later. I didn't want it for one more day. And I got the next day and I still wanted to quit, but not quite as much. And then I went one more day and one more day
Starting point is 00:30:46 and I found myself about 30 days later. I didn't want to quit anymore. And thank God the one more I did was, I went one more day without quitting. And I'm so grateful I didn't quit on my dream. Oh, Ed, wow, that is like, oh my gosh, man. Like, you just, everything you're just dropping right now, I'm just like, I hope everyone is taking notes.
Starting point is 00:31:05 If you haven't been taking notes, I'm gonna take a screenshot right now, where we're at right now, because that's what you're gonna have to listen to again. So take a screenshot, share it, tell everyone to go to this segment, listen to that over again, because I think what I'm hearing,
Starting point is 00:31:17 you know, is that this is a lifestyle. Like this is a mindset, it's a lifestyle, it's every day, every moment way to live. This isn't just in the big business you're building. This is me telling my wife, I love her one more time. This is me making sure I message my mom one more time. It's me making sure that when I'm sitting here with you, I'm always going to have to ask you one more question. Because you keep giving so much. No, but you keep giving. Well, that's what you just said. It will never end.
Starting point is 00:31:46 I think a people feel like they tried a lot and then they start building up resentment and like pain and bitterness towards that path. And a lot of people also that I know they just think that there are some people are meant to be. I agree with this. And then there are some people that are not meant to be. It's correct. And they carry that with them.
Starting point is 00:32:09 And it comes from this like, oh yeah, you were meant to be this. So that person was meant to have it. But for me, this is where I, and I heard that kind of come up and what you were saying to your dad, like, doesn't happen to people like us. How does this rule, how does this principle apply to some news in that? Brother, the best question ever.
Starting point is 00:32:26 Because I grew up with no, we have an alcoholic dad or a drug addict or maybe you come from divorce or maybe your parents just didn't love you enough, whatever it was, didn't tell you they loved you enough. It's hard to have self-confidence. I was a little guy, I got bullied in school and I just, and even at this age now, bro,
Starting point is 00:32:43 I, if I'm being completely honest, self-confidence, we all teach that it's part of keeping the promises you make to yourself. But what if you raise the standard a little higher? You keep the promises you make to yourself, plus one more. Because for me, self-confidence didn't come easy. I think in life, ultimately you're gonna get what you believe you deserve.
Starting point is 00:33:03 And if you're wound up wired like me, I didn't think I deserved a lot. I didn't even have a dad who could stop drinking. Right? I wasn't six foot four. I don't have an incredibly high IQ. There's nothing really that impressive about me, nor were people very impressed with me most of my life. So that was my pattern. That was my history, that was my memory. And so the only, I could wait around until I develop tremendous self-confidence or I could begin to do things every day that were small, they're not major.
Starting point is 00:33:36 And over time when I did those one more calls that one more meeting, that one more book I read, that one more podcast, not only am I doing more reps so the likelihood of me being successful is bigger, but I started to convince myself I'm doing things other people aren't willing to do. Maybe I deserve things other people aren't gonna get. And slowly but surely, I started to convince myself
Starting point is 00:33:58 I did deserve it based on what I was doing, not necessarily the caliber of my talent. Yeah, yeah, that was the difference. Hey, it's Debbie Brown. And my podcast deeply well is a soft place to land on your wellness journey. I hold conscious conversations with leaders and radical healers and wellness and mental health
Starting point is 00:34:17 around topics that are meant to expand and support you on your journey. From guided meditations to deep conversations with some of the world's most gifted experts in self-care, trauma, psychology, spirituality, astrology, and even intimacy. Here is where you'll pick up the tools to live as your highest self. Make better choices. Heal and have more joy. My work is rooted in advanced meditation, metaphysics, spiritual psychology, energy healing, and trauma-informed practices. I believe that the more we heal and grow within ourselves, the more we are able to bring
Starting point is 00:34:51 our creativity to life, and live our purpose, which leads to community impact and higher consciousness for all beings. Deeply well with Debbie Brown is your soft place to land, to work on yourself without judgment, to heal, to learn, to grow, to become who you deserve to be. Deeply well is available now on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Big love, namaste.
Starting point is 00:35:20 I'm Dr. Romani, and I am back with season two of my podcast, Navigating Narcissism. Narcissists are everywhere and their toxic behavior in words can cause serious harm to your mental health. In our first season, we heard from Eileen Charlotte, who was loved by the Tinder swindler. The worst part is that he can only be guilty for stealing the money from me, but he cannot be guilty for the mental part he did. And that's even way worse than the money he took. But I am here to help. As a licensed psychologist and survivor of narcissistic abuse myself, I know how to identify the narcissists in
Starting point is 00:36:00 your life. Each week you will hear stories from survivors who have navigated through toxic relationships, gaslighting, love bombing, and the process of their healing from these relationships. Listen to navigating narcissism on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. A good way to learn about a place is to talk to the people that live there. There's just this sexy vibe and Montreal, this pulse, this energy. What has been seen is a very snotty city. People call it Bosedangeless. New Orleans is a town that never forgets its pay.
Starting point is 00:36:36 A great way to get to know a place is to get invited to a dinner party. Hi, I'm Brendan Friends' newdom and not lost is my new travel podcast where a friend and I go places, see the sights, and try to finagle our way into a dinner party. Where kind of trying to get invited to a dinner party, it doesn't always work out. I would love that, but I have like a Cholala who is aggressive towards strangers. I love the dogs. We learn about the places we're visiting, yes, but we also learn about ourselves. I don't spend as much time thinking about how I'm gonna
Starting point is 00:37:06 die alone when I'm traveling, but I get to travel with someone I love. Oh, see, I love you too. And also, we get to eat as much. And we're so sincere. I love you too. My ex a lot of therapy goes behind that. You're so white, I love it.
Starting point is 00:37:19 Listen to not lost on the iHeart radio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Yeah, you just, there's a thought I've been having recently and it's that comfort creates self-care, but discomfort creates self-respect. Oh, boy, I love that. Right? Like, it's what you're saying. I love that. That the one more discomfort every day, that's where self-respect comes from.
Starting point is 00:37:42 Yes. You don't. Great turn. Yeah, you don't, you don't start to trust yourself or build self esteem or believe in yourself because you just say it to yourself. It's coming. What you just said, you got to then take one more meeting and see what you learn. You got to then take one more risk, one more discomfort. And I guarantee you, if you have a successful or happy friend, whichever how you determine that, and you ask them this, they tell you that we're right.
Starting point is 00:38:06 They would tell you, gosh, that's right. It's right. And the difference between winning and losing, happiness and sadness is so small, it's almost, it's almost scary to talk about. But the good news is I think I kind of know what it is and it's this one more. Absolutely. The people that I know that are the most successful and happy have more uncomfortable conversations. Agreed.
Starting point is 00:38:26 They're more uncomfortable days. They're more discomfort in their lives. Yes, totally. But select a discomfort. But one of the other things that I'm asking from now on, I'm going into the people that I know that I'm thinking about, I'm just going to see their faces. And I want them to know that I'm asking for them. A lot of the time, one more in the wrong direction can also be really misguiding. Sometimes people, and I know you're a person
Starting point is 00:38:57 of faith too, and so we can touch on this, sometimes we're climbing the mountain and we keep doing one more, but we're actually going further away from who we are who we want to be Our faith our partners, right? We we know people who've built multi-billion dollar companies, but lost their kids. That's right or they've become famous and rich, but they've They're partnachite on them. You know like we know a lot of those stuff And you know people who didn't do all of that, that's happened to you. It's both ways. How does one use one more and make sure it's in the right direction? Such a great question. I'm doing this now regularly because I've made some of those mistakes of just, and what I do is I check in with myself
Starting point is 00:39:39 one more time, meaning it's important to ask yourself, what matters to me now. See, if you read this conversation 20 years ago, the things that mattered to me then are so different than what mattered to me now. But a lot of us keep operating out of what used. Maybe you've achieved or pursuing a dream and it's really truly no longer your dream. It's no longer your dream. It's when I was young, listen, we're going to do a podcast. You say, hey, I need you on the show. People are going to love you. You're going to get recognition. You're going to get all this acknowledgement. And that would bend my hot button, my need. You know, I believe in the six human needs. My need was significance
Starting point is 00:40:18 and recognition. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's wonderful. And so that's the button to get me to move would be significance recognition. Well, I've been blessed the last 30 years or so of my life to have a beautiful abundance of significance and recognition. It's no longer what fills me. Now you get me to do an interview you go, hey, I really think we could help some people. My big button in my life now is contribution. There was another stage in my life. It's still there, but hey, if you go there, you'll grow. I still want to grow, but I know me now. Right now, I'm in a season of my life that's contribution. It's giving.
Starting point is 00:40:55 It's what fills my heart. And I think it's checking in with yourself. One more time. What matters to me now? What do I want now? What's important to me now? What season? Maybe you're in a season where you need to rest. Maybe you're spirit and everything about you's telling you, hey, it's time to feed you again. It's time to recharge. If that's the season, then answer that call. Don't play out of a past playbook.
Starting point is 00:41:18 And so for me, that's the season I'm in now. And I'm sure that in five or eight more years, you know, there'll be something else, but I regularly, on a monthly basis, you recommend it in your book, so beautifully about your relationship. Checking in, you have these strategies you teach about weekly and monthly and quarterly,
Starting point is 00:41:33 and yearly with your partner of checking in with them. I also recommend you checking with yourself, what matters to you now. And so for me, it's a matter of checking in now, so that I don't lose my family in the pursuit of my business or lose me. Yeah. Lose me.
Starting point is 00:41:48 Who am I anymore? And I've had times where I'm like, this doesn't feel like me anymore. Yeah. And I had at least the ability to at least acknowledge that and make a change. Yeah, and I love that you brought up seasons because I feel like no one on planet Earth,
Starting point is 00:42:04 we don't have the power to change the season, but you have the power to live the season well. That's right. You can either be in the right now, it's been raining, right? Wherever we are. It's been like pouring down with rain, there's all this effort. You could carry an umbrella. Well, you can tell how I'm dressed.
Starting point is 00:42:20 I'm definitely not dressed in my usual gear. Because I'm dressed for the rain. I'm prepared. Yes. Because that's what I can rain. I'm prepared. Yes. Because that's what I can do. I can't make the rain switch off. I can't stop it, right? Right.
Starting point is 00:42:29 I can't do that. And so I love hearing that you're just learning how to thrive in the season. And so if your season's telling you to rest, you can't force the season. And you have to live it through. You have to experience it. You know, I think you have to remember one thing, man. I think it's as easy as a person to forget this. And I just would love to say this
Starting point is 00:42:46 because you have such an amazing reach. Each of you, you and I included, we were born to do something great with our life. We were born to do something great with our life. And it's important to check in from time to time of what that current great thing is. And sometimes we think it's the big things. It's the people that are on both our shows. They've made this big movie, they've got this big song,
Starting point is 00:43:08 they're this big thing. What do you know? Who's greater? The man who helped my dad get sober? Or the fact that maybe I've helped some people because my dad got sober. That one act was greatness in his life that kind moment with another person that says, I can help you. Let me connect with you. And so don't discount your own greatness, your own call to do something great. And it doesn't have to be a script or a play or a book or a speech or on social media. It's just doing something great. And you matter. I don't mean this hokey. I'm telling you the truth about you. You matter, you were born to do something awesome with your life, your family supposed to do something great
Starting point is 00:43:49 as a family. And maybe it's just checking in and reminding yourself of that and then asking yourself, what is that thing right now in my life? And so I just think that reminder is so important that it's great to voyeuristically look in on successful people or what we think are successful people. It's also important that the camera turn back on you and go you matter,
Starting point is 00:44:12 you matter, you are going to choose. And that's probably the most important thing we'd say today. Oh gosh man yeah and you know one thing you just clarified beautifully is that great doesn't have to be big and big doesn't mean great, right? And I think we're so obsessed today. We are. In that to do something great, it has to be big, it has to be bold. You know, when I think about myself, honestly, and I can say this to you because I think in these sessions, and when we spent time together, you've heard my heart. I was one of those people who actually never believed I could do any of this stuff I've done.
Starting point is 00:44:49 I never set out when I started and I was like, oh, one day I'm gonna be, I didn't have any of that. That's not how I'm wired. I was wired in like, I wanna serve. I'm gonna serve whoever comes, whether it's five people, 10 people, I'm happy. I'll serve them. And as I started to do that, I got more confidence.
Starting point is 00:45:08 Okay, now I wanna serve larger groups. Okay, let me serve them. And then it was like, and I never believed at any point that there were these arbitrary abstract goals of like number one this. Like those one, how I set out. And so when I'm listening to you speak,
Starting point is 00:45:24 I hope someone's out there thinking, Jay, I'm like, Jay and head, I'm like, you guys, where it's like, I don't vibe with all that like, like motivation. It's like, I just vibe with the fact that I want to have a great impact, like the person that helped your father. And you know what we've both found in our life too, just to give you insight from someone called me season today. You know this, is that, you know, the universe or God really prepares you to step in in the next room when you step in with some faith. And so, maybe it does start with five or six people and maybe that's enough, but perhaps
Starting point is 00:45:57 in that space you're in, there'll be a little door open. And if you step into that one, you'll find, I think we think, I have to have it all figured out. Wasney acts a good buddy, a minor started Apple. They were a board company. They didn't really be doing this someday. They stepped into the next space. And one thing I think we also want is an immediate result.
Starting point is 00:46:16 And I talk about this in the book, maybe it would be the last little thing I'll share with you, but I went to a birthday party as I was writing the book, and it was for a young boy and they had a piñata. They've all been to especially in New York, California. You have the piñata and so what they did is they took each of these little guys, they spline folded them,
Starting point is 00:46:35 it spun them around and they're all dizzy and they're swinging and they're not even near the piñata. That's life. A lot of times you feel like, man, I can only even know where I'm swinging right now, but I'm swinging. And so each kid hit the piñata, and the candy didn't come out. And so they take the blindfold off, that kid got tired, the next little boy came up, spun
Starting point is 00:46:52 him around. So like seven of them hit this piñata. No candy came out. The last boy, the smallest boy, the youngest boy there, they filled the blindfold on him. They spin him around, he's swinging too. That's life. You just sort of swinging, right? They finally point him at the pinata,
Starting point is 00:47:06 he hits the pinata just once. Bam, all the candy comes in. And all the kids jump on and celebrate. And I'm watching that and I'm going, now who broke the pinata? Was it the last shot? Or was it the cumulative blows of each of the shots on the pinata?
Starting point is 00:47:23 Well, we all know the answer. It was the cumulative shots. Life's a lot like that, man, that we're taking shots, but we don't see any physical progress. But everyone more we're doing is compound pounding progress. And in life, you have to be willing to buy into what is invisible progress. Most people quit on their dream, quit on their vision before the candy comes out. And what you and I didn't do was quit.
Starting point is 00:47:50 We just kept swinging. And eventually the candy comes out. The candy could be your bliss, your joy, your financial success, your notoriety, your contribution. But most people are hitting the pinata of their life and there's no evidence it's working. But the truth is there's a compound pounding effect in life that if you keep hitting your life's piñata, if you'll stick around, there'll be some candy come out.
Starting point is 00:48:15 The power of one more, everyone, Ed Mylat. Go and grab this book if you haven't already. It's going to be a life changer. I mean, I mean, you can just feel the energy coming up this human being honestly. I want you to go read this book. I want you to go listen to the podcast if you don't already the first book was called max out your life as well The max out podcast ed you are just I mean your energy is infectious I don't know how anyone can't listen to you read from you hear from you and not feel like they need to change their life Like you just give me a list of number ones that I'm going to do one more. I hope that you keep coming back on the show. I hope that we keep getting to connect offline.
Starting point is 00:48:52 I hope that we get to keep spending one more day, one more phone call, one more time together because- So grateful for you, Brian. Really grateful, man. Thank you so much. I love you. Thank you. Everyone grab the copy of the book.
Starting point is 00:49:04 I'll put it in the link, I'll put it in the comment section in the caption. The power of one more. This is the book. Love it, really. Thanks, bro. That was good. That was good.
Starting point is 00:49:14 That was good. If you love this episode, you will love my interview with Kobe Bryant on how to be strategic and obsessive to find your purpose. I'm Jay Shetty and on my podcast on purpose, I've had the honor to sit down with some of the most incredible hearts and minds on the planet. Oprah, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Hart, Louis Hamilton, and many, many more. On this podcast, you get to hear the raw real-life stories behind their journeys and the tools they used, the books they read, and the people that made a difference in their lives so that
Starting point is 00:49:44 they can make a difference in hours. Listen to on purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Join the journey soon. Hey, it's Debbie Brown, host of the Deeply Well Podcast, where we hold conscious conversations with leaders and radical healers and wellness
Starting point is 00:50:03 around topics that are meant to expand and support you on your well-being journey. Deeply well is your soft place to land, to work on yourself without judgment, to heal, to learn, to grow, to become who you deserve to be. Deeply well with Debbie Brown is available now on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Namaste. I am Dr. Romani and I am back with season two of my podcast Navigating Narcissism. This season, we dive deeper into highlighting red flags and spotting a narcissist before they spot you. Each week, you'll hear stories from survivors who have navigated through toxic relationships, gaslighting, love bombing, and their process of healing. Listen to navigating narcissism on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever
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