The Wisdom of Your Ideal Worst Day with George Bryant

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Today on the show we have George Bryant. This has been one of my favorite interviews of the last couple of months. George is an excellent guest. He has a ton of experience being an influencer in the health space for a long time and he has grown many different six and seven-figure companies and simultaneously is a world-class coach and somehow does this all in just a few hours a day to make plenty of time for his family.

It wasn’t exactly an easy road to get here and he has a ton of stories to share about how that process has gone. George has a ton of gems to share about facing your fears, your hardest moments, and really leaning into the resistance. We are going to dive into a particularly interesting idea he has about how to define your ideal worst day. What are the baseline things that you can do if you can do these things even on your worst day then you still will be making progress toward your goals? We are going to explore what that looks like on the podcast today.

We discuss:

[02:54] George shares his defining moment. He shares the day he truly started living.
[08:54] The moment he was radically honest every fear he had was mitigated.
[12:03] Owning our truth is all that matters.
[15:03] Life happens but I no longer feel like a slave to it because I am living my truth. Now he has micro-adjustments in his relationships, marriage, and business that feel easy than before.
[17:02] The process of being an entrepreneur is that you are constantly pushing the limits of your comfort zone. It always feels the same but what puts you at the limit changes.
[20:23] The more experience you have the more capacity you develop and the more capacity you develop the more level-headed you can be in stressful situations to choose how to respond instead of react.
[28:03] One of the best speaking techniques is to start hot.
[29:39] He identifies the four key areas of his life that no matter what he is going to do every day because if he does them every day they are guaranteed to bring him to his vision.
[30:34] There is never going to be enough. If there is never going to be enough there is also never going to be evidence to see your progress.
[31:42] He goes through all of his key areas and asks what is the best day for him. Then he asks on his worst day what the minimum he can commit to is since his vision and results are so important. This helps him to set a ceiling and a floor.
[32:47] If you just do your floor every single day no matter what you are guaranteed to be closer to your vision and goals.
[36:37] What is your ideal worst day?
[38:39] We need to set ourselves up to be able to win. Doing nothing always makes things worse.
[38:34] Play is the most underrated secret weapon of any human being that wants to be successful.
[40:33] The intention is everything. Intentionality everywhere in our lives especially with where we choose to spend our time is probably one of the greatest resources people have at their disposal when they start using it.
[43:53] All too often we allow outside circumstances to dictate our actions and behaviors which prevent us from winning in most areas of life. Every opportunity is a chance at bat.
[44:40] When you give things a chance to work regardless of your feelings, that is when you win the game.
[46:42] When you're making commitments with yourself, set yourself up to win at them so that they become positive evidence rather than negative evidence. You have to give these commitments a chance to succeed.
[48:29] If you have the ability to set the rules of the game, which you do, it is your life and your business, why not set the rules so that you can only when?
[52:20] What is the worst that will happen if we say yes? When you have a gut feeling, just say yes.
[55:15] Our feelings don’t dictate our actions. It is honoring them that allows us to choose what we do next.