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The podcast that teaches tweens and teens necessary life skills to achieve their goals, develop unconditional confidence, cultivate positive habits and become UNSTOPPABLE in all areas of life!
Hey. Hey. Hey. Hello. Hello, and welcome to the unstoppable you podcast.
Speaker 1:It's your host, coach Will or at coaching with Will on socials. And this is my weekly podcast where I share bite sized wisdom and action oriented success principles, all dedicated to help you crush your goals, develop confidence, and become truly unstoppable in life. So without further ado, let's dive in. What's up, yo. Welcome back to another episode.
Speaker 1:So excited that you guys are here today. We are diving into something that is kind of fun for me to talk about. Maybe if you are listening to this, you knewknow what I did on May 4, which is a Sunday. Maybe you guys don't, and I feel like every person who does this one particular thing, when they do it, they just want to talk about it nonstop. Okay?
Speaker 1:And I don't never don't get me wrong. It is a big achievement and, you know, it's a big deal, But I wanna talk about it in a way that actually can help you listening to this, whether you're an athlete, whether you're a student, whether you are somebody who just, I don't know. Maybe you're just born. You know? Maybe you're a newborn listening to this.
Speaker 1:Bro, I don't know. I couldn't think of anything else. But, last weekend I ran a marathon and I did so with zero training, which I do not recommend everybody. So if you're listening to this, do not go tomorrow or this upcoming weekend and be like, you know what? I listened to this crazy podcast episode where this guy who was kind of crazy did a crazy thing and he talked about it on this crazy podcast and he ran a marathon with zero training.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Do not do that because your parents are gonna be like, yeah, you are no longer listening to the Unstoppable You podcast. I do not recommend it. However, with that being said, there were a couple of things that I feel like got me through this marathon that I ran with zero training that you could also apply to your life and it improve a lot of different things. Whether that is school, it could be your confidence, it could be your life and how overwhelmed you are, right?
Speaker 1:We want to kind of reduce the amount of overwhelm that we have or overthinking. It could be in your school. It could be with your future goals. There are a couple of things that I feel like I did that kind of powered me through and that I just wanted to relay over from my brain over to your brain because it's currently just in my brain and it's not doing anything for your good in my brain. So, like we wanna go ahead and just like yap on about it so that it can actually help you.
Speaker 1:Okay? So real quick, want to give a shout out. My girlfriend absolutely crushed this marathon. That is the reason why I signed up. I signed up about four or five days before or I should say I decided to do it, about four or five days before.
Speaker 1:And yeah, she totally crushed it. And so she was a huge inspiration for me. And this is not one of my tips, but if you can find a way to do something for somebody else. So like, I know it's kind of hard to put in homework perspective or let's say, you know, when when you're an athlete and you play a sport, it's a whole lot easier to win and play super hard in the fourth quarter of a basketball game when you are thinking about your teammates rather than thinking about yourself. And so again, that's not one of my tips, but I guess it is a tip.
Speaker 1:It's a pre tip for the tips and that is to try your best to take your mind away from you and do things for someone else. And you can find some motivation that you didn't even know you had. So let's say three different things that I really encourage you to try in your everyday life that just happened to get me through running a marathon with no training. The very first thing, the thing that I think is the most important is don't underestimate the power of your mind. Okay?
Speaker 1:Do not underestimate the power of your mind. Self talk is a term that gets thrown around a lot, whether it's on social media, maybe it's with your parents. It definitely gets thrown around on this podcast a lot, but for good reason. It is the foundation of everything. I have not really, you know, reflected on the achievement of running a marathon.
Speaker 1:I have been so caught up in thinking and reflecting on how powerful the human body is. Not my human body, but like everybody's human body. And the reason why I'm thinking about this is because I went into this marathon being like, I'm finishing. Period. Like there is no question mark.
Speaker 1:Like, should I finish? Will I finish? It's like, no. Body, like you are finishing. So I just told, you know, my legs.
Speaker 1:I'm like, hey, Chad. Like, I didn't say I didn't say chat. Sometimes I call him bro. I'm like, hey, bro. Like you you are gonna finish this this, marathon whether you like it or not.
Speaker 1:And my body just kind of followed. Like it, I don't want to say it wasn't hard because it certainly there were some tough moments, but I was amazed at how well my personal body kind of followed what my mind was telling it. So what does this have to do with anything in your life? Well, I think just what I said, like don't underestimate the power of your mind. You get what you focus on.
Speaker 1:If you focus on all the things that could go wrong, if you focus on all the things that could be absolutely horrible about the future, then your body, whether it's your legs, whether it's your heart, whether it's just like your nervous system, your gut, it's going to react in a negative way. If you are telling yourself positive things and you are focusing on all the things that could go right, if you're focusing on all the things that you are good at, if you're focusing on positive things, then your body is inevitably going to follow that. Okay? Now again, I am not recommending you just go tell your body, Hey, I'm not even going to do what Coach Will did. I'm going to do above and beyond.
Speaker 1:I'm going 50 miles. Yeah, don't do that, you know, because sometimes just because you probably could, know that's kind of crazy, but I actually think like if I just told my body I was gonna run 50 miles, I think it would have just listened to me. And so like you don't have to go and do that, but if you are taking a test and you have finals coming up, which I know a lot of you guys do, which by the way, good luck from the bottom of my heart. I hope it all goes well. You can absolutely crush this, but you gotta tell your body and yourself that you can do it because I know it sounds like the cheesiest life coach thing ever, but that is where positive actions and positive results stem from, is your positive thoughts.
Speaker 1:Okay? And I'm not talking about the cheesy positive, toxic positivity thoughts that you just think. It's like, oh, I am the greatest human being in the world. I am the most confident human being. I am just the greatest thing to ever walk on planet earth.
Speaker 1:That's not what I'm talking about. I'm just talking about, I think I can do this. Like I'm going to go and focus for an hour and body, like you're not gonna get distracted. Mind, you're not gonna get distracted. Now, will you get distracted a little bit?
Speaker 1:Yeah, maybe. But you're gonna get distracted way less than if you tell yourself, I don't know if I can actually focus for an hour. Okay? So that's the first tip is don't underestimate the power of your mind, feed it positive thoughts, and I promise you positive actions and positive results will follow. You get what you focus on.
Speaker 1:The second big thing is something that I talk a lot about in my executive functioning toolkit, which is by the way, brand new. It is a toolkit for families. So if you're a parent listening to this, then I have a workshop for you. And if you're a kid listening to this, I have a workshop for you. But it's basically how you guys, as a family, can work together to actually improve your executive functioning.
Speaker 1:And I talk about it a lot. I talk about how you can manage yourself in time. Okay? And I use this in my marathon, and that is breaking things down into bite sized chunks. You know, for me specifically, thinking about 26.2 miles, that overwhelmed the living daylights out of me.
Speaker 1:Like I got so nervous thinking about 26.2, even thinking about that right now, I'm just like, no, thank you. There's no way I did that. There's no way I could do that with no training. But thinking about doing five five mile runs, which I know math does not add up to 26.2, but it's 25. Okay?
Speaker 1:And so that extra mile was just kind of bonus, and that wasn't gonna happen, you know, even if I was to walk it. Thinking about five five mile runs is so much easier for me to think about than 26.2 miles, even though it's roughly the same exact thing. You guys picking up what I'm putting down? In order for you to manage yourself better, you've got to manage the overwhelm, which is a lot of things that we feel every single day. If you've got a huge test at the end of the semester and you're like, bro, I've got to memorize this whole entire semester's content.
Speaker 1:It's like that's going be really overwhelming. And what happens when you get really overwhelmed? Well, you procrastinate because your mind is just like, want to escape that overwhelm. And so I'm going go play some video games and I'm going to escape it, the negative feeling of overwhelm. And I'm going to go do something that doesn't make me really overwhelmed.
Speaker 1:But then guess what? You got to come back to the overwhelm, which you know, that's called procrastination. And so in order to reduce the procrastination, in order for us to reduce the really crappy negative overwhelm feeling, we can do this thing called breaking things down into bite sized chunks. It's not like this thing called breaking things. Like that's just what you do.
Speaker 1:You break things down into bite sized chunks. And I mentioned this in the toolkit. And so if you have watched the video in the workshop in the course that is for time management executive functioning, you kind of know this story. You know, there's been thousands of students that have already watched this and so it might be you. But if it's not you, I went to college and I was really, really overwhelmed with my finals, which it is about final season right now.
Speaker 1:So shout out to you if you guys are studying for finals in the next month or so. It was final season and I had six finals that were all like borderline grades. And if you don't know what that means, it's like I had like 88 percents, 89 percents, 91 percents, 79 percents. And so I had, I had grades that like the finals really mattered. It was either going to bump me up to an A or a B or drop me down to like a B or a C.
Speaker 1:And that gave me a lot of overwhelm because there was a lot of pressure on these end of the year tests. And this guy comes up to me and he could tell, mean he was my mentor, he's my friend. And so he could tell that I was really overwhelmed. And he asks me, he's like, dude, how are you feeling? And I said, absolute dog doo doo right now, Shane.
Speaker 1:Like, I feel like dog doo doo. And not like the regular dog doo doo that's just like, you know, like, I feel like Dash's dog doo doo, sorry to be a little bit too much information right now, but after he like gets into the trash and eats like some coffee grounds, like that's the type of dog doo that I felt like. And he's like, okay, I'm assuming it's because of finals. And I was like, yeah, duh, it's final season. And he's like, how would you eat an elephant?
Speaker 1:And I look at him, I'm like, bro, what are you talking about? I just told you, felt like dog doo doo, how would I eat an elephant? I would never eat an elephant. I love elephants. So shout out to you if you also love elephants.
Speaker 1:He's like, no, dude, if you did eat an elephant, how would you eat it? And I said, well, I couldn't eat it all at once because an elephant is slightly larger than me. I'd probably just eat it with a fork or maybe a spork if I'm feeling funky. And he's like, exactly. You just eat it one bite at a time.
Speaker 1:And I said, dang bro. What does that have to do with anything? And he's like, you got to do the same thing with your finals. You got to break it down and eat it one bite at a time like you would eat an elephant. We get really overwhelmed.
Speaker 1:And I want you to think about this to yourself. Like if you actually had to eat an elephant and it was just sitting in your kitchen, okay? It was just or maybe something of elephant size if you're like, bro, I don't want to think about eating an elephant. It was just sitting in your kitchen. It'd be really overwhelming for us to have to eat that thing.
Speaker 1:You know, it would take us years probably, right? It'd take us like years to eat a dang elephant. But if we break it down into bite sized chunks, it gives our brain the ability to say, wait a second, like I can actually start that thing. You know, like I can actually make progress in eating this thing if I just break it down. I just take one bite at a time.
Speaker 1:That is your mantra. That is your affirmation for the next sixty days. I don't know why I picked 60, maybe 30, maybe six, I don't know. But you got to tell yourself, I'm breaking things down into bite sized chunks. One bite at a time.
Speaker 1:One bite at a time. All right. So it could be with your training. It could be with your nutrition. It could be with your homework.
Speaker 1:It could be with your finals. It could be with a marathon that you have coming up. But I was thinking to myself, all I gotta do is just run to mile 14. And then once I'm at mile 14, I don't need to run to 26. I just get a run to 17.
Speaker 1:And once I'm at 17, I don't gotta run to 26. I just got to run to 18. And I got to the point where I was struggling so dang much that I just needed to run to the next step. You know? That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1:So the third thing, sorry, my mom just texted me. She did say congrats. She texted me yesterday and then she's like, Hey bro, I like again, congrats on the marathon. So that's why I was just looking at my phone. I mean, goodness gracious.
Speaker 1:So that's the second thing. The third thing is super, super awesome. And it's something that I feel like kind of gets overlooked and it has a little bit to do with the pre tip that I gave you guys. But the third tip is to spread positive energy. I feel like this is so underrated in today's world.
Speaker 1:I also feel like it is crazy, crazy under looked in today's world. And I'm going to go ahead and say something really bold right now. For those of you who are students listening to this, maybe you could be a student in middle school, elementary school, high school. You could be a student in college. You could just be a student of life.
Speaker 1:You could also be an infant. Who knows? Right? You're a student of walking. I don't know.
Speaker 1:Student of just talking, breathing. But this is something that I feel like it's just like you don't understand how easy it is to separate yourself from other people. You don't understand how easy it is to stand out in today's world. Like if you are somewhat enthusiastic, if you ask people quality questions, if you spread positive energy, people are going to look at you like, dude, what is wrong with you? Like how are you so positive?
Speaker 1:And you've got such a bright future and all these different things because it is so rare nowadays. Most people are just walking around life and this could be you. This is certainly me sometimes. We're just walking around being like, I hate this day. This day sucks.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh. My family stinks in this way. I hate school. Blah blah. If you actually have intentionality towards having somewhat of positive energy, it spreads and people want to be around that type of energy.
Speaker 1:So what does this have to do with my marathon? Well, I noticed that people were just feeling really crappy at the end of the marathon, obviously, right? They had just run eighteen, twenty miles and there's this thing called the wall in the marathon. I will say I didn't even feel the wall, which was kind of surprising. It's right around eighteen, twenty, 20 two miles where you just start feeling bleh, right?
Speaker 1:Mindset goes out the window. You know, you're just thinking to yourself, Oh, how do I still have six miles to go? And you're thinking to yourself, Oh my gosh, there's no way my body's going to do this. And so in that moment, I saw all these people being really crappy to themselves and they just like feeling bad. And so I tried my best to be the most positive person on the course.
Speaker 1:And that might have been annoying to some people. I mean, I can almost guarantee you it was. But just like passing people and saying, you got this, right? People I could see that were open to it. There was just like this shift in energy that was like, wait a second.
Speaker 1:Yes, I do got this. And I guarantee those people were grateful for the energy that I was spreading. I don't know if you guys have ever noticed this, but like when you are around someone that is energetic and not like the annoying energetic, You know, like sometimes on this podcast, I might be the annoying energetic. Who knows? But like people who are energetic that you like, they typically raise your energy levels.
Speaker 1:You feel more positive. You feel better being around those people. That is the type of person that you need to strive to be if you want to be successful, fulfilled, if you want to be confident, if you want to be happy, if this is just my opinion, if you want to be happy, be somebody that other people are happy to be around. Because the more that you can spread that positive vibe to other people, the more it gets back to you, which makes it easier to spread it to other people. So that's that third thing is when in doubt, serve other people.
Speaker 1:Take the attention off of you and ask yourself, how can I be of service? How can I impact someone around me? And it's in giving that we receive. And so I promise you by impacting somebody else, you are going to inevitably feel really good. And also, it's gonna be easier to impact people in the future because it just comes back around to you.
Speaker 1:It comes back around to you, Chad. So, those are three things. I could probably list another five or six things, but I'm not going to bore you with it. It's already been eighteen minutes. Those are three things that I learned that I feel like you could be benefited by and, transferred over from my brain to your brain.
Speaker 1:So hopefully you enjoyed. If you have not checked out my toolkit. So again, it's a time management toolkit. It's super affordable. The the link is in the description below.
Speaker 1:It is absolutely awesome. Again, it's just launched and so that's why I'm talking about it here. Something that I talk about is the breaking things down into bite sized chunk. I also talk about dopamine. I talk a little bit about distractions and screen time in a non cringey way.
Speaker 1:And it's super helpful for at this point thousands of kids already. And so go and check it out. Like I said, it's super affordable. If you don't like it, then just shoot me an email and I'll give you all of your money back. And again, it is one workshop for kids, one course, one workshop for parents, and it's one system that works together.
Speaker 1:So hopefully you enjoy. I hope you enjoyed this podcast, I will see you in the next one. Peace, everybody.