YOU ONLY HAVE 2 CHOICES | Investing In Your Longterm Lifestyle

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Good morning, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Mo our last podcast, where we talk about getting more out of life. So you're not left here with less. So the world has every ounce of you and you leave nothing on the table. This episode, we're going to be talking about choice. You only get two choices in life, so let's get into it.

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Thank you guys for joining in again today, we're talking about choice. I like to jump right into it. I don't like to be around the Bush. So here is the deal. In life, there's only two choices. It's either yes or no, it's either do or don't do whatever the situation is. There's either a go forward or don't go, there's either a stop. There's either continue when, look at your life. When you look at. What you're doing in your life, you have to come to the realization. That it is a series of choices. I've talked about this before in previous episodes, I, with this one, we're going to hone in on the effects of your choices. So for example, I got up this morning. At 5:00 AM. And it's been, I've been on and off on, be honest, I've been on and off of my 5:00 AM journey. Sometimes I get up every day. Sometimes I'll get up like three out of five days. I wanted to get up early. Because that's just, it's just life and sometimes I'll make an excuse. Sometimes I'll tell myself. Hey, you need to get some good arrests. You need to, listen to the voices in my head. You need more rest, even though I went to bed like at nine, 10 o'clock. Again about five to seven, eight hours asleep. But I tell myself you need to sleep longer just cause. For whatever reason I do that. But then other mornings like this morning, I pushed myself. Like I have to get up, I have to do this. And this morning I was able to get a little workout in. Recording a podcast episode. And getting a lot done before I have to wake my kids up within another hour. And I love that so much. And for you, whatever it is that you're doing, whatever it is that you're lacking you, it could be a little shift in the choices that you are making. So when it comes to eating right. So I'm the king of in decisiveness with eating healthy. And I'm not talking about what I eat healthy or not. I'm talking about picking a routine. Don't want to stay carnival or do I want to say no pescatarian or, you know what I settled on? Recently I call it the whole foods diet. Leaning into a biblical based diet. That's another story for another day, but this is a quick plugin right here. Check out my coaching program on the totem app. Oh, you could follow a totem.coach on Instagram and get connected with that community of coaches. But you're going to want to click my link. And get tapped in to the community, to the information, to the support that I have for you with the totem app. Okay. And this is where you can get your personalized coaching, your personalized growth. To, get to where you want to be in life to overcome your mindset. Basically the way I have. And so I want to show you guys, I want to share my journey with you, but I want you to go on your journey with me. All right. With that being said, let's get back into the topic at hand, we are talking about making the choice. It's always hard to make the right and out choice. And it really comes down to investing in yourself. Long-term investing is depending on the choices you make. Now, you deciding not to eat those sweets for a week. We'll have a longterm effect down the line on your overall health. You decided to work out today and then starting a routine of consistency. We'll have a long-term effect on your life, down the line, you saying no to that relationship? We'll have a long-term effect down the line. You saying yes to this career choice will have a longterm effect down your line. So a lot of times the right now choice, the easier choice. Makes things more convenient and easy for us right now. But in actuality, the longterm delay, the choice, the effect that it has on us later, it's going to be worse, right? Like you can enjoy that cookie, that cake right now. But that habit is going to have you paying a lot of medical bills down the line. You can skip out on you can give a safety in a bad relationship. You can give that relationship another chance instead of being done with that relationship. And then having to deal with that down the line. There are so many different things that we can decide and a lot of times the harder choice. Is the right choice. Saying no to that relationship, taking that leap of faith with God to walk with God. Changing your diet. And I heard somebody say this own, plugged it in right here. We shouldn't call a diet because a diet makes it seem like a challenge. It makes it seem like it's something that you have to put effort in. What is simply just eating the way we're supposed to eat. It's natural. We programmed ourselves to think that you're doing more. So eat the way you're supposed to. And that is natural for us to eat unhealthy. To eat this junk to eat fast food processed foods, but it's actually proper for us to eat whole foods, natural foods through growing ourselves foods. We make ourselves. And we have to come out that way of thinking and we have to get away from the convenience because convenience feels so good. Just like throwing in my little spiritual nugget here, sin feels so good in the moment. I'm not even going to lie when you send, when you're doing right now, it pleases you right now. But as a long-term effect for you down the line, it's going to be a struggle with your walk. You're going to be struggling with certain things you're going to need, deliver us from certain things. There's going to be certain things that's happening in your life because of the right now convenient decision that you made. That's going to have a longterm effect on your life. So you owe it to yourself, your future self.'cause you're right now, self is a result of your past decision. Your right now self is reaping the benefits, the rewards, or the terminal, the struggle, the trauma, because of your past decisions. What'd you decided five years ago, 10 years ago, one year ago. Is affecting you right now. You didn't change your health back then, like you wanted to, and now you're suffering right now. You're popping pills. You. To deal with that health. You didn't. S, the night that relationship five, 10 years ago now you're stuck in this relationship, struggling with this person, right? You didn't give your life to the Lord years ago. And now you gave your life to the Lord now, and you're seeing the blessings that you would have had 10 years ago. Had you made the decision, then there's so many stacked upon stack of choices that we deal with in our lives. And it's essential for us to make the right to. To make the right choice now. So I encourage you. I want you guys, I'm gonna challenge you guys today to write a list of 10 things that you want to see changed. In your life for me. One of my lists is making a healthier lifestyle choices, right? Committed to this healthy lifestyle. I cut out sugars. I be going online. I'm not going to lie. I be seeing like crumble, cookie and all these dessert places in Orlando that looks so good. But I can't even give energy to that. People say it's okay to have a cheat day every now and again, that's fine, depending on who you are. If you can, if you have that, self-control. I know I do not. I know if I hit up crumble cookie this week, I'll probably enjoy it. And then I'll probably, start eating out a little bit more than I want to. And, by the next thing I know I went a week without hitting the gym. My goal is to hit the gym every day. And some days, two, a days, right? Because I'm also doing a lot of cardio calisthenics in high intensity training, which allows me to do that. Not a lot of heavy weightlifting. I'll probably do that three to four days a week. But when you're doing bodyweight natural stuff, you can actually do that stuff every day. Cause there's people that do physical jobs every day. So it's okay. If you know what you're doing. So my goal is to work out in some capacity every single day. And grow in my spiritual journey. I made a commitment this morning. I'm going to 10 X everything in my life. This morning, I got up and listened to the word of God, followed by. My cup of coffee. For my pre-workout. Before I work out and then followed by I'm reading some audio books. I like to listen to audio books. And then doing that, having an intentional time for me. In order for me to best prepare myself. And I'm only worried about today. Today. I did it today. I got up at five today. I did my routine today. I stuck to it. I'm not worried about tomorrow. I'm worried about getting in as much as I can today. And then when I go to sleep tonight, I'm going to prepare to do the same thing tomorrow. Living one day at a time is so crucial. Because the big thing like, oh, am I going to get up at 5:00 AM every day? This week? I don't know, but I did it today and my effort is going to be to do it tomorrow. So I'm going to do what I need to do today to make sure, let me get my day done by 9 30, 10 o'clock so I can comfortably wake up at five o'clock so I can get it in again, doing all these things, putting out this work, putting out this content, getting my coaching. Business prepared for you, right? So whatever it is that you have to do. Whatever it is that you have to do, you have to decide right now, another goal. Of mine again is growing in my spiritual walk. Right now. A camp leader. At my church we have it's called trail life and I'm one of the troop leaders. And I want to set the best example for those boys. Right now, only for my son but the impact that we have on the youth that are next generation, if we can encourage them and uplift them, At a younger age, it's easier to plant seeds when they are young versus trying to, minister an impact the adults because adults, they already have their minds made up. It's harder to get them to shift. Where they are in life, but if you can get the kids. Like my brother's a coach. And some of them dudes that he coaches. They're more broadly, they're more physically fit. They don't have the mindset that I got, but if you look at them, their stature, because they committed to fitness, they're committed to their health. They're putting themselves in a good place for their future. And that comes down to the coaching. My dad, he's a coach as well. He coaches. Little league football too. And planning that CDN. I've even seen a transformation from this story is one of his players grew up to play at the high school where my brother coaches, and now they're going on to do. Bigger things. And that's over a year, that's like over it, like years of progress. Years of progress. And so that's that commitment that they devoted to, for their life. And we have to make that same commitment. Are we willing to see a hundred. 10 years, 20 years into the future. Are we willing to invest ourselves? Actually, that's going to be my next episode now that I think about it. It's talking about long-term investing in yourself. But right now, we're getting back to making the choice. Making the choice job you have to understand, again, there's only two choices. Today or tomorrow, but tomorrow never comes today is right now. And what you do today will affect your tomorrow. So are you going to buckle down and get to work? Get to business? As you see it, like I'm literally. And my gym clothes. I'm here under my pull-up bar while I'm working out at. Where do you going to do? To improve yourself to improve your mentality, to improve your. Your morality. What are you going to do to shipped? What are you going to do to improve yourself to better yourself? Are you going to say yes to you? Or are you going to say no? Are you going to put yourself first or not? And putting yourself first, it's not putting yourself for example, I'm not talking about putting yourself before God or anything. Putting yourself first is I want a stronger spiritual life. So I'm going to make sure I'm walking with God properly. I want to have longevity in my health. So I'm putting myself first. And I'm going to treat myself. To positive eating. I'm putting myself first. So I'm going to increase my mentality by reading books, by studying my word. I'm going to put myself first by becoming more financially literate. Learning financial hacks. And things where I can prove in my finances, like coming to my home bar academy on Tuesdays. So you can go into home buying process. Whatever it is that you are, wherever you are in your life, you have to decide. To choose you. It's scary. It's scary. Like the whole reason why I started this podcast is because I didn't want to keep all this to myself. And plus I'm doing this in honor of my wife, of my late wife. There was so much stuff she pushed me to do and encourage me to do, and I would do it. Lackadaisically right. Like I had a podcast. I started like a couple of years ago. And then I was just like, oh, I'm doing it in the past time. But now my mindset shifted to like these things I have to do. There's people that's out there hurting there's people that haven't figured it out. There's people out there that's struggling in certain areas in their life and they're only going to get it by the way I deliver it. Someone might be listening to this, but then you have to go out there and give you to this world. That's why it's called more or less. You have to give the most out of your life to this world because somebody needs you. So what needs you to say yes today? So when need you to say yes right now, so they can say yes, when it's their time. If you're not saying yes. To you. Then you're saying no to. Generations you're saying no to a group of people you're saying no to so many different individuals, right? Imagine and Martin Luther king day and say, yes. There will be generations lost them. We're still, we're still dealing with the aftermath of certain things today, but his impact. Imagine if Jesus Christ. Then say yes. Imagine if he'd let that cup pass for him. We will all be dying in our sin. Imagine. Imagined. If your parents didn't say yes. To, to the moment I brought you into this world, we wouldn't have you. Regardless of how you came into this world. Someone said yes. And made a decision in that moment and you're here for the world. God said yes to creating you and bringing you. Here. Someone took a bet out on you. You can think back to a minister. A teacher. A close friend. Let's say yes. To you. That changed your life. Now you got to say yes to you. To change not only your life. But those that you impact. And influence. So are you going to make that choice today? Or are you going to continue to say no to yourself and regret your life? Cause right now. We're probably getting less. I know I'm giving Mo. IMO. But what are you given? What are you giving is a Mo. Or is it less. You decide. Is it? Yes. Or is it no. Is it now? Or is it never. Remember. You are who you are and where you are. Because of every past decision. So if you're not where you want to be right now. You have to make choices right now. So your future self. I can say, thank you. You didn't work out. You didn't get into your word. You got into that relationship. You got into that group, you got into that job, all those things that you don't like, where you are now. I love my job. I love being able to work from home. It's about of everything. I love mother help journey. I'm on. I'm seeing the results. I love where I'm at spiritually, but I also know you can always go deeper spiritually. I love where I'm at financially, but I also know I can make better financial decisions. I can make better health decisions. And so my commitment to myself is 10 next in it. And only doing what I can today, 10 X in the today. One day at a time over time, that's going to make the difference. What are you going to do different? Are you going to choose yourself today? Or are you going to say no to yourself? It's a hard choice. It's a hard choice. To choose you. It's a hard choice to say yes to you. It's a hard choice to make that commitment to a newer, better lifestyle. And that's why I'm here. I'm here because I want to hold your hand through the process. I want you to click. On my link. Am I told them profile. So we can go on this journey together. If you say yes, but you don't know how to take that first step. That's why it's important to have a coach. A mentor. Guy, someone who's going to get you from step one, to step two, to step three. All you have to do is say yes to yourself. Will you say yesterday? And if you do. I'm waiting for you. Catch you guys next time. AMO. Or less.