So the big question is this, how do young men like us, who didn't listen to society,
who are on our own, how do we grow and improve ourselves so that we can look better tomorrow?
That is the question and this show will give you the answers.
My name is James Radzinski and welcome to the Ascend Momentum Show.
So these past couple days have been very good lessons, or not even the past couple days,
today.
Yesterday, I... no, yeah, past couple days, yesterday and today.
So even over the past like four or five days, I've kind of been...
I was talking about how on my...
Oh my gosh, I'm so tired right now.
I just want you guys to know that today is a bad day, or not a bad day, but today is
just an off day for me.
I'm not really feeling it.
I'm like...
I've been down all day and I've been tired.
I didn't really get much done today.
I just did my normal routine and I emailed my counselor to drop the rest of my classes,
so I'll be able to have all my classes...
I'll be able to only take required classes.
I feel bad for uploading this episode, but hopefully you guys can see that it's okay
to have off days and today is definitely an off day, but I just know that as long as I
keep moving forward, keep putting one step in front of the other, one foot forward and
over the other, I'll just keep making progress and I'll keep going forward.
So a lot of people, when they have an off day, they just give up.
I'm just taking today easy, getting back to it tomorrow, and I'm gonna actually not go
to the gym every day anymore because I want to focus more on business and studying and
learning everything there is to learn.
So I think that I'm gonna go to the gym three days a week, one push day, one pull day, one
leg day, just three days a week.
It will either be Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or Saturday, Sunday, Monday.
I haven't decided.
So probably actually Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.
That seems like a better, better thing to do because the reason why I am going to stop
going to the gym every day is because I'm moving on to business.
This new focus of my life right now is business and I want to have a lot more time to study
books in the morning.
So I want to use the morning, I might end up using the morning to get work done and
then study afterwards.
It's just school is starting soon, literally in like four days.
Wow.
One, two, three, four, five, like five days.
School is starting in five days.
Actually yeah, I think that once you guys hear this episode, I'll be in school.
So I'm recording this before school starts.
I have like a five day cushion on my recordings.
Yeah, it's three o'clock right now.
I'm going to finish this episode and then quickly post it, like schedule it to post
and then just try and get to bed or I will get to bed in time tonight.
I got to get back on my routine because I am not optimal right now at all.
I'm falling apart and it's just because I haven't been on my routine.
All right, let's talk about comfort zone.
I've been talking about comfort zone a lot lately.
I just started to because I realized that we have to get out of our comfort zones in
order to actually get the life that we want.
I am yawning so much.
I don't know why.
Well, I know why I'm tired, but let me let's talk about comfort zone.
This is not something that I actually started focusing on until like a week and a half ago,
maybe maybe like nine days ago.
And I didn't even realize that I was focusing on it until like a week ago or five days ago.
I don't know.
And it's all like I've noticed that expanding my comfort zone is so huge because I always
get nervous or I just feel uneasy around people.
And that's like all my life.
And then once I expanded my comfort zone by going into local businesses and then asking
for girls phone numbers, that baseline of uneasy like it's starting to wither away,
it's starting to go away.
I'm starting to feel a lot more calm in social situations, which is huge because I hate I
do not like being anxious in social situations.
And I didn't realize how bad it was until now when I'm actually calm in social situations.
So if you're anxious or nervous in social situations, just get outside of your comfort
zone, take your friends to go to the local mall and just like ask for girls numbers or
something like that.
And I am I still get nervous and social, but it's not as bad and I get like really sweaty
too.
I'm like a really sweaty person, so I sweat like all my hands and then in my pits, I get
bad pit stains.
So it's every time I like tap someone up or shake their hand, they get a nice dose of
sweat.
So whatever though.
Okay so this is there's one thing that I realized when I was going to ask for girls numbers
is literally right away since I was just doing it with the intention of expanding my comfort
zone, every single rejection, I did not even care.
I was just like, all right, have a good day.
And every single rejection, I like instantly like I was not faced by any rejection.
And there was actually one moment when a group of girls were like laughing at what I did
afterwards and I heard them and I was not face.
And that's I'm not sure if everyone will have a similar experience, but that was my experience.
Alright, so I see another I'm just looking at pictures of the comfort zone on Google
and this picture looks very complicated.
So comfort zone is there's like four different circles all like near each other and kind
of overlapping.
There are a few not overlapping over each other.
But there is the comfort zone, fantasy land, realm of possibility, that wait what?
Okay fantasy land is delusion, realm of possibility is potential.
And then in the there's a danger zone, and then a sanity line along the side of danger
zone and your comfort zone.
And then there's a fulfillment frontier where one more frost possibility is.
Okay, so it looks like the realm of possibility is overlapping with the fantasy land.
So there is a lot of fantasies that you can have that are just delusional.
But it looks like a lot of the fantasies that we can have are actually in the realm of possibilities.
And there's a false fence of identity.
I have no idea what that means.
In the realm of possibility is a force of complacency that's powering it maybe.
I don't know.
Or this picture is too complicated to explain right away.
Yeah, so when I was looking up for exercises to expand your comfort zone, there were really
I couldn't find any like lists of things to do.
I couldn't find any lists of things to do so I'll just tell you guys what to do.
So first is email some people if that's nervous for you.
Second is cold call some people.
Third is go in person to like local businesses or something like that or in person and have
conversations with people.
I find that it's easier to do local businesses because that'll be like more purposeful.
Like there would actually be something to talk about instead of someone random on the
street.
And then once you do that like four times, go to the mall and just talk to girls and
ask for their phone numbers.
I've only done it once but it's it's probably one of the most comfort zone pushing things
that I've ever done.
So I'm actually going to look up I haven't actually looked this up yet.
Flights to Orlando oh one way.
Yeah thirty dollar cheap flights to Orlando.
Are you serious?
That's gotta be well I'm gonna leave on September 27th and it's all the way around August October
1st.
Yeah I'm looking for flights from Chicago to Orlando.
There's one for a hundred dollars that's so cheap.
I was thinking it was gonna be like five hundred bucks.
Alright well it's looking like we're we're actually going to yeah so if you guys didn't
see my episode called I'm going to Florida.
I think it actually posted today as of as of recording this.
So post it on the 10th.
I think it was episode 15 and that so if you guys are listening to this podcast this episode
right now the episode's already out.
And it's episode 15 and in there I basically say that me and my friend are going to Florida
for Funnel Hacking Live which is an event hosted by the person who we are studying business
on and honestly I had doubts because I thought that the flights were gonna be like a thousand
dollars each.
No a hundred dollars for one round trip ticket.
So easy.
Yeah I already have that money right now but now I'm just gonna keep working on business.
Oh my gosh I'm so sorry for this.
I'm moral or I'm kind of at odds right now about whether I should post this episode.
I already attempted recording an episode like five minutes before I started this episode
and once I got like 10 minutes in I just stopped recording because it was so terrible and I'm
kind of at odds right now on what I should do because I don't want to upload a trash
episode but I also want to make sure that I'm posting every single day and I want you
guys to see that I have off days but I also want you guys to see here a good episode.
I don't know I think I'm just gonna post it because I'm too I just don't want to have
to record two episodes tomorrow.
So I'm not gonna lie I've been researching Brian Johnson.
I think that's his name.
I'm gonna look it up Brian Johnson and he looks different.
Okay well he is basically reversing aging that's what he's doing and I'm gonna invest
in his work once I make it like once I get a lot of money.
I think it's something like two million dollars a year to reverse aging so I'll take that.
That's a huge.
Honestly he should be charging like 10 million at least but two million dollars I don't know
if it's he's charging two million dollars to the public or it's two million dollars
is how much it costs him.
I don't know but I'm prepared to spend two million dollars a year.
Not right now obviously but I mean reversing aging that's huge.
If you can live like even 20 years longer than you would have otherwise that's worth
it two million dollars a year.
I mean you can make three million dollars in one year.
You can make like a hundred million in a year.
You can make as much money as you want.
Money's infinite but time is not.
If you see an offer for two million dollars a year to increase your lifespan and live
healthier at the same time which I am already trying to do live as healthy as I can but
his method is the most efficient optimal health ever.
So I mean he takes like a hundred supplements a day which is crazy but I mean you got to
do what you got to do and by the time I invest in his work he'll probably refine it down
and have it way more optimal and better than what it is at now.
So I did this a couple episodes ago maybe like I don't know how long ago but I basically
opened up when I was I didn't know what to say or what to talk about.
I basically opened up oh wait before I say this I'm going to write down why a two million
dollar investment is good.
Alright but per year.
Alright so I'm basically what I did a couple episodes ago was I just opened my book my
notebook to a random page and then read what was on it and started talking about it and
so I'm about to do that right now.
Oh okay this I wrote down on I wrote two on the date like February but it was actually
seven it was July January February March April May June July yeah July 25th.
I wrote this down July 25th so how many days are in July?
July 31 okay so it's been 16 days since I wrote this down 16 days ago I wrote down celebrate
my shiny object syndrome but balance it and have it have in one in on one thing.
Okay I know what this means so for some context 16 days ago I was watching the Your First
Funnel Challenge.
It was just an online five day long challenge with daily webinar and on this particular
day I remember someone it was during the VIP session someone asked how do you deal with
your tiny object syndrome and a tiny tiny object or not tiny shiny shiny object syndrome
is basically when you I think in this context it's entrepreneurs like to look for another
when they come up with an idea for another venture opportunity or another completely
different idea they like to go on after it but it's detrimental to them because them
switching modes every so often when they see a new idea they never make any progress and
so what the response to the question was I think Garrett J White talked about it I don't
remember who I don't remember for sure but he answered shiny object syndrome is good
for entrepreneurs except it is not good when we're actually trying to do something and
once we know the path once we know like the strategy on how to make something work so
for me my path is the consulting business to build funnels for other people so now once
I know that you are you are to only focus on that one thing only focus on building funnels
for other people and then don't get distracted by anything else so that is that I'm really
excited that I'm sorry I'm switching the topic again but I'm thinking about those plane
tickets it's only like $95 per person for a round trip so I think that I'm actually
gonna look it up again I'm gonna do one way one way oh wait it would be the 26th we would
leave on the 26th done wait yeah I'm really excited because it's like $100 for a round
trip so how much for it one way $28 no way on the 26th $28 $35 I'm leaving at 8 a.m.
all right oh $44 for non-stop yeah this I'm taking that so that's literally just $90 or
maybe $100 for both of us yeah I could get that really easily I'm gonna actually can
you buy tickets buy plane tickets for someone else I'm a plane ticket for someone else's
eating all you need to do is make sure that you have the passenger information looks to
see this is exactly as it is like driver's license oh yeah yeah so I think what my strategy
is to get once this first of all I got to focus only on this funnel and making it successful
get in the first funnel successful and then I got to once that funnel successful make
another funnel but make a deal with them and say I'll build you this funnel if you buy
a she buy me a ticket me and my friend if you buy me two tickets round trip or one way
to Florida yeah I kind of want to do one way because then we can figure things out once
we get there that would be awesome only like a hundred bucks for both yeah this is this
is what happens if you guys you guys are seeing hearing this live this is what happens when
you realize that your dreams are actually about to come true I know I don't sound very
thrilled I'm just really tired and today's not been I for some reason I'm just not very
upbeat today I think my energy is low I've been activating my sounds a lot today but
it's not really helping but what I'm trying to say wait it might be because on Monday
or Tuesday whenever we went to the mall to ask for girls numbers I was activating my
fountain a lot because I don't know but that might be why I'm so tired or maybe it's just
a coke doesn't matter this is what happens when you when you realize that your dreams
are actually about to come true now let me look up how much it costs to fly to Hawaii
plane plane ticket to Hawaii one way one way baby Chicago to Hawaii wait where wait actually
best surfing in Hawaii Maui $400 for one flight it's not that bad alright kia huna beach
is the best surfing weather and that is on the island of kawaii it's like the second
most eastern one second it's like the more it's the northernmost one yeah kawaii I'm
gonna do flights to kawaii kawaii I'm gonna do December I think I get out yeah I'm just
gonna do December 31st one way one passenger from 550 to 245 a.m. or no 550 a.m. to 245
p.m. wanna get away what does that even mean oh yeah I'll take the one I get away offer
for $400 $400 yeah $400 to get to Hawaii so how much does it cost to and also by the
way what I'm doing right now is figuring out the costs of stuff I'm doing a live one because
I just thought of doing it I can't really think of anything else to talk about and also
you guys see that once you realize your goals are actually achievable you'll be way more
motivated so I've never actually looked at the costs of of this moving to Hawaii and
let's see I'm gonna do renting I'm trying to like rent an apartment on the beach side
like right next to right next to Kuan what is this beach called kiahuna beach kiahuna
beach I want to rent on that beach or even buy a house how much does it cost to buy this
house oh that is a terrible I'm not living there you know I'm just gonna purchase a house
let's see uh zillow zillow real estate kiahuna kiahuna beach uh is it only in America or
only on the mainland nope I'm on kiahuna beach as we speak where is it this episode actually
sucks I'm so sorry you know I'm just gonna stop looking at this moral of the story I
don't know if I should post this episode or not I kind of feel bad but I'm probably gonna
post it because it's because I'm like really lazy right now or tired I don't want to do
two episodes tomorrow I want to study tomorrow so I'm gonna post it and I'm gonna make the
rest of it good I'm gonna make the rest of this episode worthwhile let's do that I'm
gonna open my notebook again and find something to talk about okay here I wrote down on the
25th same day as the last thing I wrote down and it's do it with a smile so I remember
what caused me to write this down and I'll tell you right now the guy who I'm studying
his name is Russell Brunson and he is a very good businessman he's very smart he knows
all about funnels and all kinds of marketing and all this stuff he it was an all-american
wrestler which if you don't know what that means it means that he's pretty much like
the best wrestler in the nation when he was in high school so that's insane he's like
extremely like he was a very disciplined he's still probably still is I don't really know
him right now I don't know him but just from what I've read is that he's very disciplined
and he used to be on the wrestling team in high school and he played in college too but
for context he I think he was the best on the team because he was an all-american so
you're probably the best on the team if you're an all-american and for context his team at
this point in the season all had to cut weight so they were all just miserable they were
all cutting weight like every single week going down coming back up going down going
back up on the scale and if you've never cut weight before I have never but I've had friends
who had and they are miserable like during school they're so tired they're dehydrated
they're thirsty like they're hungry all of this you're basically starving yourself and
dehydrating yourself of all of your nutrients just to reach a number on the scale especially
if you're in school while this is happening that you're your focus and everything is just
really bad but during this one practice they were everyone was miserable everyone was just
lumped like pushing them like they were all just lumped like humping around like they
were all just miserable just moving trying to move forward and then their coach pulled
them all aside and said hey you guys are gonna be here tomorrow you guys have to be here
anyways you guys are gonna be here tomorrow the next day anyway so you might as well do
it with a good mood you can't change the fact that you're gonna be here but you can change
your mood towards it and so everyone was like alright coach and then they went back to practice
and no one really listened to what he said but then the next day Russell Brunson had
to go to practice early to cut weight and the way you cut weight is by putting on like
a plastic thing over your like putting on a sweatshirt putting on a plastic thing over
your body and then putting on more sweatshirts and some like winter hats like getting extremely
insulated and warm and hot and then you start jumping rope with all that stuff on and you
have like baggy pants and all that stuff too lots of stuff on so you're extremely hot and
then you start jumping rope so if you can imagine that you're sweating through all of
this stuff and it's probably extremely miserable and so he had to do that before practice so
he had to do that plus go to practice right after with no water and when the first person
came in and saw that he was doing that he was like Russell what are you doing and then
he would he responded I'm cutting weight and then he the dude was like why are you smiling
and then he was like I don't know and then the next guy came in Russell what are you
doing I'm cutting weight why are you smiling and then Russell was like I don't know but
I've never seen anyone cut weight with a smile so I think I'm gonna do this and so pretty
much he changed his attitude towards it and one it was probably a better experience because
he wasn't he was probably so miserable but his attitude shifted so it wasn't like as
bad and then two his thought energy was dedicated towards happiness and not misery so that's
a huge lesson to be learned and that is one thing that I should be if tomorrow I'm not
counting on it but if tomorrow is similar to today where I'm just down I'm going to
remind myself to do with a smile and you know what I'm gonna do it right now I'm smiling
right now and I gotta stretch my back real quick okay I'm back so I'm doing it with a
smile so that was a good lesson and I'm really glad that I learned I'm reading expert secrets
right now the second time through and I'm really glad that I read it because oh excuse
me I got the hiccups let me get some water real quick I'm really glad that I have read
expert secrets because I learned how to teach things and the best way to teach people is
by telling a story and this certain type of story that you teach them is it's called an
epiphany bridge story it's basically where you tell them the emotion get them to feel
all the emotion that you're feeling in the moment and then tell them exactly the epiphany
that you had through a story format so I kind of just I've been practicing and I just told
you his story Russell Brunson story on doing it with a smile and so if you look but if
you remember I said I got you guys to feel all the emotions I was miserable and then
I got you to feel the epiphany where he was jumping rope and did it with a smile and then
I told you like the benefits after that and that's really how you teach and I've actually
been using that method of teaching whenever I have to teach someone in real life also
like my friend has also read the book or he's reading it right now for the first time and
but we both know that teaching method because when I read it the first time I taught him
that that's how you teach through story and so now he's learning it as well but he knew
before because I taught him but we've both been teaching each other things through that
and the way like that is so good because you just tell someone you should eat healthy or
wait let me come up with a good example well no let's just use the example of the jump
rope so if you tell someone be happy like do it with smile yeah they're probably not
going to do it because you're just telling them what to do but if you get the whole point
of this is to get them to learn what to do and have them think that they got to that
point on their own so basically you tell them how to do it through story format but that
allows them to believe that they came up to that conclusion on their own so they would
actually I found that when my friends tell me things I never do it like for example my
friend was like eat white rice because I was switching to brown rice and then he was like
you write keep sound right rice brown rice is not good for you and then I didn't I didn't
do it but then I after like a while I saw that I think I heard a story about it and
then it made me think that I came to that conclusion on my own it's just if you hear
a story it allows you to believe that you came to the conclusion on your own so if you
tell someone a story it allows them to get to that conclusion on their own but the story
just helps them along their way so they're a lot more likely to do it and take action
and that's one thing that I've been really practicing and doing in real life don't just
tell someone to do something tell them to do something through story alright I'm gonna
look at my notebook even earlier to one month ago let's see this is January February March
April May June this is June alright this is July 13th yeah July 13th is the closest thing
oh yeah this is on July 13th like one month ago less than a month ago this is what I wrote
I said record audiobook it was like a list so it was probably my to-do list for the day
or the to-do list in my business for the for the near future record audiobook with voice
recorder fix mistakes in guide fix mistakes on click funnels using scripts on that kind
of secrets insert five minute perfect webinar video on click funnels work on perfect webinar
framework 90 minutes and create huge offer for it follow schedule for webinar create
dream 100 list to promote yeah that that was one month ago I had this this was actually
my vision for the future like this was exactly what I needed to do to be successful in business
and I'm glad that I'm still studying because now I know the way better steps forward this
is why I'm over the past like this is why for many episodes be prior to this episode
I said that studying you guys need to be studying and you just got to be constantly learning
so you can constantly become more efficient and know the more efficient way forward
Wow so there's this webinar that I signed up for called the funnel builder by Russell
Brunson and I forgot that I was on that webinar like I was actually live on it on my computer
and then I'm like 40 minutes in so it's been running the whole time I was on the podcast
and I just opened it and he's on a slide called what's the difference I can't afford this
and how can I afford this and it was the guy who wrote rich dad poor dad and that is one
of the quotes that I kept reminding myself entrepreneurs are problem solvers they figure
out how you can afford this and the fact that I'm gonna go to Florida next month I can already
afford it and I didn't know how but I know I can afford it and I'll figure it out and
these houses I'm looking I'm actually looking at the map again for the houses and it's pretty
good they're like two million dollars I could definitely get that oh here it is Koo Kiana
Beach 19 units 700k rental oh for sale pro 700k I could get that easy this house kinda
sucks but I don't care two-bedroom two bathrooms 700k I just need a surfing house someplace
to stay while I'm surfing learn how to surf oh this one's even better one 450k for one
bedroom one bathroom well I could make 450k in one year like less than a year easily yeah
this yeah this is the house this one looks good so it's like 500k and I am going to see
how far I'm gonna get this address and see how far it is from the beach it's walking
distance a hundred percent getting this map google maps directions from this place to
Kooana Beach search wait there's not like a I'm doing walking distance wait is this
the so I'm getting distracted all right I'm getting distracted I gotta wake up yeah that
was on so back to what I was saying on the 27th of January February March April May June
June 27th so like a month and a half ago I was literally asking myself what do I want
to do for my business what product do I sell how do it yeah this is yeah this is why you
keep keep learning on the 26th of June I said fix my mindset my character determines my
income not the tactics it's my mindset choose the right business don't think about the benefit
think about the problems of the thing and ask yourself so I would actually I don't really
understand oh like what what you compare the problems to like the problems you would experience
to each of the businesses and what which business which problem you would not mind solving and
dealing with every day I don't really know how that applies to the right now sure me
because I don't understand what that is I wrote that well oh wow on the 26th I would
I didn't even know about funnels I was literally writing a I actually remember writing this
stuff down this was like halfway through summer break and I was just I just realized that
I need to get into business and I wrote down the first thing in this notebook this business
notebook is goal build a business and this was like a month and a half ago on June 25
I mean it was steps finish dot-com secrets second step read how to start a business little
did I know dot-com secrets had everything I needed yeah and I was yeah I had no idea
I think it's just simply because I wasn't very educated I didn't know that much and
fact that I learned so much in a month and a half I literally have over full I have over
four months until I am graduated from high school so if I learned this much in one month
man the amount of stuff I'm gonna learn four months is actually crazy I would definitely
be rich I would definitely have a business I'll be a pro I was doing market research
on my competitors because my original business idea was to make a basically copy Airbnb
but I didn't realize that I was basically gonna make Airbnb but I didn't realize that
Airbnb already existed so that's yeah that sucked I'm glad I didn't follow that so on
this June 26 I said what work would I do for free for 10 years oh oh wait this is how
actually good this page is good so I listed some things to do for for business number
one choose the right business think about okay yeah I just so the first step is choose
the right business second step is accountability open the journal when you mess up and feeling
the pain of failure leads to growth accountability so I actually developed this habit then on
that day because every single night since like the 26th of June I've been journaling
and asking myself questions of what was today like efficient like did I actually get stuff
done today and I sit in my pain I actually have been not sitting in my pain lately so
I got to start sitting in my pain about the failure that will lead to growth and then
step three is focus major tasks written on paper for the day do nothing but the task
until it is complete set intention to start this task to completion without getting distracted
get work done effectively and efficiently then relax that is that is the step that is
probably the most important that I actually have not figured out how to implement I'm
just being a wuss and this is like the one step that will get me into it step four prioritize
choose the most important task and I said like coding yeah no I'm not going to be coding
at that point like literally a month and a half ago my plan was to code like learn how
to code like to build my website on my own that was a terrible idea I'm glad I learned
about click funnels then question if I could only work for two hours a day what tasks would
I do oh this is when I was reading the four-hour work week okay and I said then only do it
and get better at it what task I guess building funnels would be my task okay so from this
reflection session building funnels is my task that's like the only thing marketing
and building funnels is the only task that matters so for example the you if you are
a youtuber the only task that would matter is recording a video like none of the other
stuff matters except for recording so literally only record every day and then you'll get
better and better I guess that's what I'm doing podcasting but not really focusing 100%
of my effort on that it's just documenting my journey
number five is courage feel fear but do it anyway say fear out loud it probably sounds
stupid yeah it definitely does for example being afraid to approach a girl that you don't
know and ask you for a number if you just say it out loud it sounds stupid like you're
afraid to walk up to someone and say hey can I get your number that's just sounds stupid
and two days ago I was afraid to do it but today I'm probably less than 50% afraid so
I'm getting good getting good I wrote down the pursuit of becoming an entrepreneur will
make me a lot more masculine because I will learn I will start to learn to overcome my
fear yeah I agree entrepreneurship is 100% about overcoming your fears plus I didn't
realize it at the time but I did like comfort zone challenges to increase my comfort zone
to reduce my fears I think it's really good to reflect on your journals every once in
a while I always reflect just the morning after while I'm icing my balls but I think
that maybe like once a month it's good to look back and reread all of your stuff to
see your progress because this is really inspiring because today I was really down but I'm actually
feeling a lot better that because literally only one month ago like 30 days ago I that
was clueless and I made so much progress I'm actually like so far ahead of where I was
a month ago very grateful for that sorry guys this episode kind of sucked but I just want
you guys to see that I'm really am documenting my journey like the lows and the high points
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