Keys to Success – Delay Pleasure in Favor of Pain | Warrior Notes

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This is Chris Albert, and I'm here to remind you of one thing. Someday, you're going to die. That's not some morbid statement or scary idea. It's solid fact. Your time here on this earth is limited.

And we need to be reminded of this as much as possible for one simple reason, to live your best life while you can. This is the Warrior Soul podcast.

You know, if there's one thing that I think every person needs to develop in terms of success skills, it's this. The ability to delay pleasure for the long term. To hold off on paying yourself. And it sounds like it's such a simple thing. But the reality is it's this one thing that will determine your course in life.

If you can go through life not going for the immediate payoff and working toward that long term payoff. The one that's gonna pay you off down the line, then you're gonna be set. Let me give you some examples of this. The first one, obviously, is saving money. Right?

Saving money. If you're able to put money away in your bank account and then put that money into something that's not gonna pay you immediately, maybe it's an investment, maybe it's a piece of real estate, maybe it's a business. Right? Whatever it is, if you're able to put that money into a sound investment, then down the line that's going to pay you off. Right?

Same thing goes if you're starting a business. Lot of people think, hey, I start a business, I'm going to pay myself. I can tell you that in all the time that I've been running Warrior Soul, for the years I've been doing it, I've never taken a paycheck from it. Everything has gone back into growing it, into advertising, into building out our systems. Right?

Why? Because if I was just paying myself the whole time, what would happen is I would end up, you know, just living off of what I'm making and not investing it into the business, making it bigger, spreading the name, building the brand, doing the things that I had to do to grow it. Right? This is something that if you have it, will allow you to do everything and anything that you want to. Now specifically, this goes for everybody, but specifically, for those you young people, right, young men and women who might still be in the armed forces.

I just had on Nick Bare from Bare Performance Nutrition. He has a nutrition company, right? He started his nutrition company while he was still in the army. Started it while he was still in the army serving as an infantry officer. During that time, the first two years he just made $25,000 off of that.

Just made $25,000 a year, the third year he made $20,000 At the beginning of any business essentially what happens is is there's a build up phase. Your business isn't instantly going to take off. Right? So he had those three years, he was still getting his salary from the army. Right?

He was living off of that, and he was making money off of the business. Of course not enough to live off of but enough to put back into the business to grow it. During that time he learned everything he could about setting up a supply chain, getting products, doing shipping, all the logistics he needed, and he used that three years as a way to learn. And then he slowly learned things about marketing. And then in the fourth year he started really focusing on YouTube.

And he was able to produce videos that went viral. And then that allowed him to grow. So then in the fourth year, he started making a lot more money. And still he wasn't paying himself. Because he had to put that money into building out the supply chain more and ensuring that he was going to continue to be able to buy product, to ship it out, he'd have the money to ship it out to keep advertising and marketing.

And he kept doing it, right? So this guy didn't really pay himself until years into his business. When we're in the interview, a lot of people because he runs a multi million dollar business right now but a lot of people say oh he's a multi millionaire. No he's not. He's not.

He is building a multi million dollar business and in the long term he's going to be better off because if he was rolling around in Bentleys right now and living in vacation homes and things like that well that business isn't going to grow. Now for those of you sitting at home right, we live in this world where we see all these people like on social media, they got their fancy houses, fancy cars, all these different things. All that is just a bunch of trash. It's literally just a bunch of trash. And if you're in that mindset where you're just constantly spending, you're constantly putting your money out on that kind of trash, you're never gonna build anything.

Right? This principle goes toward everything in your life. Literally everything in your life. If you can forego the immediate pleasure, what you do is you're pulling yourself out of slavery. Right?

Same thing with your diet. If you can forgo that sugary ice cream every single night, well guess what? When you're in super awesome shape and you want a freaking bowl of ice cream, you could have a bowl of ice cream and it's not going to impact you. That's like what Jocko says, Discipline equals freedom, right? You can see that to yourself, but you got to learn how to apply this.

You got to learn how to apply it. Right? And that is the biggest and greatest skill that you can have if you want success out of life. And if you got it, you're going be able to do some amazing things. And that's all I got for you today guys.

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I hope this stuff is coming home with you. I hope you're getting a lot out of it. And I look forward to speaking to you again on the next episode of the Warrior Soul Podcast. I am out.