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What's going on guys? Hey, it's Coulton, Woods here? And I know it's been awhile since I've podcasted, but I just happened to get off an interview with a guy named Christoph Merrill and let's just say he put a little bit of a fire underneath my butt and lit it and kind of stoked the fire a little bit more. And then after I was done getting interviewed by him, I realized, Holy cow, I need to really get on and actually share some things from the interview that I think you guys would actually really enjoy, insert intro. So I thought I'd get on here and share a couple of the habits that he was asking about. Now Christoph Merrill, if you don't know who he is, what he dives into is habits essentially because his habits saved his life. You'll have to go check out his channel to hear that story. It's, it's an amazing story to hear. Um, and if you want to see the interview that he did with me, then I'm sure you can find it on his YouTube channel. Um, just search habit freak. I think it's all one word and should be able to find it. YouTube. Um, but I wanted to share a couple things that centrally, some of the habits he helped me identify that I even have, which I know I'm super far still from having or developing all this habits that I need in order to be that super successful person. You know, I'm not like Jeff base of style, you know, or, uh, I'm not on that level, you know, but he definitely helped me figure out some things and think through it. And I was like, man, this is actually really good. This is gold to, to figure out so that we can kind of understand better, um, the different habits that actually help us accomplish the things that we need to in life in order to be successful per se. Now, I know I've shared this story tons of different places, but, um, obviously it may be the first for you. So, um, I, he, he asked me like, what, what's one of the habits that you have had that you feel like have helped make you a little bit more successful? Um, and it was interesting. I was like, you know what, I, it takes me back to a story of when I was younger. Not that I, I would say, um, I'm super successful at all. Um, but I feel like, you know, I'm successful than relatively more than some other people who are just starting out. I'm not that successful. Um, but he asked me that and I'm like, okay, well that's cool that you think that first off. But, um, he asked me that and it made me think of when I was younger and when I feel like I was like 10 or 11. I was pretty young and I remember the day of being outside when this, when this thought or when this kind of paradigm, this mental paradigm shift kind of happened for me. Um, and a little bit of a pre-frame to it is my dad would wake us up on like Saturday, like every Saturday. Now. He claims it was every other Saturday, but I don't really, I don't feel like it was a really Saturday, Saturday. It felt like every Saturday team to me. Um, but he would wake us up early on Saturday, which most kids, pretty much every kid's going to not like being woken up on a Saturday to go outside and work. Let's just face it. Um, nobody wants to do that. No kid wants to do that. You know, Hey, I want to stay home. I want to play video games. I wanna play with my friends. I want to veg out and do nothing, you know, or like watch cartoons. And my dad would instead take us outside to work. And I'm like, man, this is, and I remember it for years, it would bother me, you know, and I, I would just kind of be mad at my dad because he's making me come outside and do all this hard work when it was Saturday should be my data. Excuse me. How fun and, you know, do other things not work? You know, like I have to go to school every other day. Um, but I remember the day I, I can see myself outside working and I remember I was like, Holy cow, like this. Like, this is horrible. You know, like this is not fun. And I had a thought and I was like, what if I made this a challenge? Um, and I, I looked at my brothers and I was like, I bet you I can, I can do this facet and you can do that, you know, or I bet I can get this done before you do, you know, or faster than you. And it was interesting as I, I didn't know at that time or at that point what was actually happening, but I figured out a way to, instead of dreading and hating work, I started to enjoy it. And pretty soon we were making everything a competition. All of our work was a competition and we would get things done faster and then we'd be done earlier and I could actually go do things with my friends because I wasn't like dragging it out, like having a hard time and not enjoying any of it, you know, I was dragging it out, making it last longer and just the day was horrible. But when I was making it a competition, things we get done faster, but the day would, you know, like the time of working would actually get go faster as well for me. And I'm so, I'm just so thankful for my dad for making me go outside and do that because I wouldn't have had that lesson otherwise at that young age. And I just learned, Hey, I can look at this thing as, you know, I'm going to enjoy it and have a good time and just get it done. Or I could be like most of the other kids my age and just complain and make it a hard thing and fuss about it and whatever and make their, you know, make their parents mad at them. Um, instead of just get things done and things just got done and it was fun and I would be able to go move on to whatever the next thing was. Um, and I've, I attribute that to my work and working now is I've found ways to enjoy it, found ways to make it fun and to almost essentially make it a challenge for myself so that I continue to push myself. And then that will also give you, I mean there's so many men or there's so many psychological things behind it as well that help. But essentially, I mean it helps in so many different ways of your life that there's just healthy for you essentially. But um, I've added it to a lot of things I do now. Um, and uh, you know me, so if you know, I work with Steven Larson, it's funny we'll be doing stuff and like it's kind of a joke. Like, Oh man, this is like a hard thing to do. And we kind of make it a joke of make it hard coach. But really we think that way a lot of the times of like this is going to be a hard thing. All right. Make it hard coach. Like, cause I know it's going to push me and make me better essentially things I'm doing. So make it hard coach, like, yeah, let's do this, you know. So anyway, I just wanted to share that one part of it. Um, I feel like, I think we were on there for almost an hour. I don't know if that's, but as long as the interview is probably 30, 40 minutes. Um, but if you want to go check it out, go check it out and see all the other things you asked me there. I definitely want to have him on the show and kind of understand his point of view and his side of things because habits really do dictate and determine different things in our life, including the success that you have in whatever you're doing. So, um, I totally believe in that and I, I wouldn't have been able to, I mean it's, he asked me about how I lost weight essentially cause they used to weigh 300 pounds and I got down to 230 pounds. And he's like, do you feel like you've made a habit out of that? And I'm like, you know what? I never really thought about it till now. But yeah, I've made a habit out of different things in ways that I eat. It's really good interview. I would highly suggest you listen to if you're, if you want to learn more and understand habits a little bit more, but I thought I'd just drop that one main habit there that I thought was pretty cool that he pulled out of me. Um, hopefully it helps you guys, uh, and hopefully y'all do and get, and thank you so much for listening and as always, if you got any comments or questions or anything, please feel free to comment on where you may be seeing this or hearing it and let me know your thoughts and reactions as well. And, um, yeah, we'll talk to y'all later.