True Patriot Love - Can You Transform Your Year in the Next 160 Days？

00:00:00.000 well if the last 160 days has taken the wind out of your sails don't go anywhere because

00:00:09.320 we're going to put the wind right back where it belongs for the next 160 talking to me

00:00:13.800 about being halfway through the year paul micucci thanks for talking to me about this bud no problem

00:00:18.760 you know what it's a great reminder that you have a half a year left and you can make some changes

00:00:24.000 when you guys brought this up as a topic i literally did this it is how is it possible

00:00:30.200 half a year's already gone by yeah i know well the older you get the faster it goes don't say

00:00:35.480 that paul i kind of did detect it i tell my kids that all the time but it does kind of put a point

00:00:41.440 on uh the idea that look you do have we just are halfway through summer that means there's a lot of

00:00:48.200 great weather still ahead yeah there's time to get yourself into doing something with the next part

00:00:53.120 of the year and reframing your focus on stuff uh this is actually kind of an opportunity yeah you

00:00:59.100 know and i used to with my teams that we used to do for all kinds of projects i used to go by hours

00:01:04.920 minutes and seconds okay so there's 3 840 hours 2013 230 000 minutes and 13.8 million seconds

00:01:19.700 that's a lot of seconds to put to use actually if you think about it if you break it down so you got

00:01:24.060 to be efficient with your time yeah yeah and now okay so everybody's had a half a year of

00:01:30.460 shoveling snow and paying taxes and slogging it out into the spring and stuff like that

00:01:38.360 now between now and the arrival of a new year what are some of the things you kind of think

00:01:46.260 people could be doing how do we change our focus and and get motivated for the rest of the year

00:01:51.320 well you know it it's interesting mike i gotta tell this story because it tells how if you set

00:01:58.520 a goal for a period of time and you figure out by the day by the minute by the hour how you're

00:02:07.460 going to use your time you can accomplish really cool things and and you know i learned this years

00:02:11.860 ago you know as you get older you don't get smarter you just see more um and i was down in

00:02:16.740 oklahoma and i was having a few drinks one night with a bunch of guys and we had this crazy idea

00:02:22.580 that we were going to run a full triathlon now these are a bunch of other shaped guys sitting

00:02:27.860 around a table drinking beer talking smack so i got up the next day i went to the bookstore in

00:02:33.220 those days everyone went to the bookstores you know you had bookstores all over the place i bought

00:02:37.140 a book written by a triathlete who had actually competed in the olympics um and i uh read it

00:02:44.260 and on the back pages it had empty pages books used to have no empty pages so you could write

00:02:49.940 notes so i actually crafted out my uh my workout plan my training program and it had and he believed

00:02:59.940 that you had to do 30 000 miles between running swimming and biking to get ready for a full

00:03:07.140 triathlon which meant roughly about 14 hours a day of uh i'm sorry 20 hours a week of training

00:03:16.260 like full training every week you need to put 20 hours in to doing this exactly so and and this is

00:03:22.580 um swimming 2.4 miles biking 112 miles and running a full marathon 26.2 miles that's a full

00:03:30.660 triathlon that's an incredible task i mean when i when i hear people doing this i almost don't

00:03:35.620 believe that it's possible well you know i didn't either so what i did is i kind of went home that's

00:03:40.580 why i sat down i got my calendar in those days it was a written calendar so you know you you didn't

00:03:46.020 have computerized typing in your file of facts so i sat down and i actually made my training program

00:03:52.340 into my calendar of my daily calendar and i get up every morning and i'd start the day at like

00:03:58.580 two to three in the morning i get on the trail and i go do my couple hours before work and i do my

00:04:04.100 couple hours after work and i got my definitely got my 20 hours in and plus i got my 30 000 miles

00:04:10.980 in and i actually completed it i actually ran so i ran a full triathlon and that was within the

00:04:17.780 year that you began it was actually uh 12 weeks that's incredible yeah it was from drinking beer

00:04:28.580 yeah never having done this to okay i'm ready to go yeah it was a little over a quarter i'm probably

00:04:33.460 giving myself too short a time but i was it was a little over a quarter you know and that's

00:04:38.340 fantastic and i went and built it and it taught me the value of time management going in and goal

00:04:44.020 setting right and also calendarizing so that you know that was the big thing but but yeah it really

00:04:49.140 was and and you know i i look at you know i i got to the halfway mark the other day in the year and

00:04:55.140 i sat down and i said okay i gotta re uh look at the business plans and i called you for the company

00:05:02.900 we got to re-look at all so that's what kind of prompted those discussions to happen okay we're

00:05:07.220 halfway through the year yes let's make a let's make a an injection of positivity yeah refocus

00:05:14.660 rethink we created a business plan so let's actually sit down and go through the business

00:05:19.060 plan again and say okay where are we going to be in august we're going to be in september

00:05:22.820 and that's where you know started a whole bunch of conversations that you know you and i had

00:05:26.980 that we're now kind of doing some changes we're modifying we're adding a couple really cool

00:05:32.340 components to the company we're expanding the way people can access us yeah we hired a couple new

00:05:37.260 people you know it added that conversation that made us actually move towards that goal that is

00:05:41.980 true yeah yeah oh well okay so a couple of things come to mind as you say this uh you know when you

00:05:48.340 talk about the uh doing a triathlon by the way that that you've kind of inspired me because part

00:05:54.580 of my hundreds next 160 days is getting back to we're doing this we're doing this 24 hours a day

00:06:02.000 yeah yeah i've got a time manage that better for health purposes i'm a man in my 50s don't you know

00:06:07.800 and so you know actually making sure that we get back to that plan that's part of my plan but i

00:06:13.440 think that a lot of people start to do that at new year's not halfway through the year they don't

00:06:18.440 take a look back halfway and think wait i can salvage this or i can make this better right

00:06:24.120 well if you haven't been doing it figure out a way to simplify it so one of the things you know

00:06:29.640 when i and i talk about the triathlon i used to simplify my swimming so you know this sounds

00:06:35.240 crazy but um i moved to a place called the double deuce which was very uh close to the ou medical

00:06:43.240 center which had uh five uh and i think it was five five olympic size pools that weren't very

00:06:50.780 busy okay so in the morning i could get my swim in because i had to get ready to do 2.4 miles of

00:06:56.920 open water swimming so i had to figure that out so you know i had to build up to you know i think

00:07:02.880 it was 120 laps in a in a hundred meter pool so i had to kind of get there and i saw i had to start

00:07:08.820 at 10 and then go to 20 and then go to 30 and then go to 40 to the point where i could consistently

00:07:13.540 knock down so many uh miles in the pool to get to the open water because i couldn't swim open

00:07:20.440 water every morning i only got to do open water triathlon training when quite frankly i got to

00:07:26.260 florida okay and then then i had to move close to the lifeguards because off of uh fort lauderdale

00:07:32.960 because i didn't want to swim alone in the ocean in the morning so i had to swim with the lifeguards

00:07:37.300 in the morning to do the open water training but those are like the things you need to simplify to

00:07:41.960 get your goals done and it sounds you know it sounds difficult but it's not that difficult if

00:07:47.180 it's a priority in your life it's funny but if you think to yourself okay i don't play the guitar

00:07:52.300 Oh, well, you do.

00:07:53.400 You're good at it.

00:07:54.360 Yeah.

00:07:55.600 Not great, but I'll tell you this.

00:07:57.860 It is something that I dedicated a certain number of hours a week to now for 25 years.

00:08:05.820 Yeah.

00:08:06.120 Maybe more.

00:08:06.920 You can tell.

00:08:07.620 And it's just one of those things that is built in.

00:08:10.960 Now, if I don't do it, and you might have found this leading up to the triathlon,

00:08:14.880 if I don't do it, I feel like I've left something out of my day or out of my week.

00:08:18.080 Yeah, yeah.

00:08:18.520 I felt the very same way about riding and walking and kayaking.

00:08:24.760 Here's the problem.

00:08:26.640 Some activities you can get going and it takes but one thing to get in your way.

00:08:32.040 Yeah.

00:08:32.220 And you drop the whole plan.

00:08:34.340 The whole strategy just falls down.

00:08:36.420 Yeah, sure it does.

00:08:37.500 So that's part of that motivation and planning, I think, that might maybe plan and get you back on schedule, get you back on track.

00:08:45.020 Yeah. Well, it's it's it's getting getting rid of the obstacles that stop you from doing it, getting it in your calendar.

00:08:52.880 And it might be as easy as, you know, again, when I talk about training, it's easy as figuring out when there's sunrise.

00:09:00.260 Yeah, it's a good point. How much time in the day when the sun set.

00:09:03.240 So, you know, I even today when you look at my calendar, I write in even if I'm not training, I'm writing in sunrise and sunset.

00:09:11.700 so you know what what daylight hours you have to be doing whatever well and and part of that is

00:09:18.100 quite frankly you know and i said to you when the summer came i try to convince everyone i know i

00:09:22.560 drive the the the night hawks in the and the business is crazy but i try to convince everyone

00:09:28.520 to start earlier get out earlier i want to go home earlier right i want you know if it's eight

00:09:33.700 o'clock in that sunset i want a few hours to get something done that i like to do in the outdoors

00:09:39.340 to make me happier so i kind of prioritize makes perfect sense get my eight to ten hours of work

00:09:45.440 out of the way earlier so i can catch more sun at the end of the day because i you know i know i'm

00:09:50.160 not going to get it in the morning like it's in the morning i have too much on my mind i'm not

00:09:54.440 i'm preoccupied with all the stuff we're doing business-wise i know it's interesting i can clear

00:09:58.860 my head at night and get into it right you hit the checklist at night yep and or throughout the

00:10:04.040 day and in the morning by the evening you give and by the way i i'm the nighthawk i i uh i'm on

00:10:10.280 the other side of that which is interesting because part of my part of my regime uh regiment

00:10:16.420 on a on a sort of weekly basis is uh the morning you know my my morning walk and uh i find that if

00:10:25.620 i don't do that the rest of the day seems weird yeah but that's good then again that could be the

00:10:32.440 evening it's funny but if you if you don't change your this is an opportunity you said we're sitting

00:10:38.340 here talking about this and i'm like you know he's right actually you know in the evening i'm gonna

00:10:42.300 spend more time doing this in the gardener i can see the sense in it this is why at 160 days maybe

00:10:49.100 you sit with your friends and you say okay let's do a little bit of a let's go through the list of

00:10:54.280 what we want in the next 160 days if you do it in your own mind that's good but you sit and discuss

00:10:59.500 it for a couple of minutes with your friends or family and suddenly you see yourself going in a

00:11:04.700 different direction because you're getting ideas you're getting motivated oh yeah yeah well what

00:11:09.740 have you accomplished so number one you know don't be too hard on yourself what have you accomplished

00:11:14.140 in the first you know half of the year yep you know pat yourself on the back you know make sure

00:11:19.020 you you know and uh admire all the accomplishments because that's important for positivity not only

00:11:27.180 that why are you doing it otherwise right yeah if you don't see what you're doing yeah okay we put

00:11:32.380 you in the ground and you're a martyr when it's all over yeah otherwise enjoy it exactly because

00:11:36.940 it is a big lift you know whether you're doing a a personal task a business task you know starting

00:11:42.060 a new company uh running a triathlon you know going to the gym whatever you're doing even you

00:11:47.580 know reading so many novels you know you get that knocked down in the first half be happy with that

00:11:52.620 right right so all those things you know make you make your list and say okay great i accomplished

00:11:57.260 all these things in the first half you know well done you know i should take a day and celebrate

00:12:02.220 the accomplishments of the first half of the year what didn't i get finished okay here are the things

00:12:07.100 that i left on the table what are the things that block me from doing them okay how do i get them

00:12:12.140 off the table and how they get going right and then quite frankly you know prioritizing them so

00:12:17.260 this is the one thing you know uh sitting down and i always do this you know is there someone

00:12:23.260 from a family member that i need to spend more time with right is there someone like i always

00:12:28.460 kind of say okay you know how's the family doing how are they you know is there someone i need to

00:12:33.180 prioritize more time with you know set a set a schedule to do one event you know does your kid

00:12:39.180 need to learn to drive right you know i have one that's actually learning to drive um and quite

00:12:44.300 frankly you know so when i get home i'm like okay here's the keys we go we go driving right you got

00:12:49.480 to prioritize that time you know and if you can't do it quite frankly you know i tell him the story

00:12:55.060 the other day a buddy of mine actually is taking him fishing now i saw that he caught a fish yeah

00:13:00.460 so you know so i said you know i'm not going to have time to do the fishing thing but i know a

00:13:05.040 guy who loves to fish and i know a guy who loves to play golf uh not something high on my you know

00:13:11.000 But in his hundred fun list, but sharing his hundred and sixty days list with you, you see it on his list and think, OK, I need to help prioritize that for him.

00:13:20.700 Yeah, we will help each other out on just that's human nature.

00:13:24.580 We forget that, right?

00:13:25.620 Yeah.

00:13:25.820 If I said to you, Paul, listen, man, I want to get back in the gym, but I just can't motivate myself.

00:13:31.480 You might say to me, OK, you know what?

00:13:33.020 The first couple of mornings I'll come out, we'll have a good time and you'll get back into it.

00:13:36.600 Or, you know what?

00:13:37.760 I think you need this train.

00:13:38.740 once you start to have these discussions or even do the 160 day audit on yourself yeah you get

00:13:47.400 ideas yeah yeah well you know one of my part of which i'm really excited about is we're moving

00:13:52.700 eventually to a new location we're looking at a few options you know there will be a small

00:13:59.160 fitness component in there uh there will be some biohacking elements that's going to be fun right

00:14:04.440 So I can kind of tick those off.

00:14:05.980 You know, I've accomplished those things in the last half of the year.

00:14:09.740 I would have hoped to have got them in the first half.

00:14:11.820 But you know what?

00:14:12.960 Those are things that are holdovers that I got to go get in the second half.

00:14:16.140 Right.

00:14:16.480 You know, what's interesting is I think that taking a look at the halfway mark

00:14:19.820 and saying, okay, where did I get?

00:14:22.300 Guys like you and I sit down and we're very aggressive with what can be done

00:14:25.640 in a week.

00:14:26.320 Right.

00:14:26.760 Right.

00:14:27.100 And many people are.

00:14:29.380 And so what remains on this list, I don't think necessarily

00:14:34.040 disappoints us it's almost like yeah we saw a percentage of the factor of this this uh aggression

00:14:40.920 not making it through the the over the wire in time but it it does show you what you can do

00:14:48.400 oh yeah you know uh in that time and to be able to just think okay i got this far

00:14:53.260 okay this list over here this was obviously not the the pillar moments i needed for that year

00:15:00.940 but how do I incorporate them into the next half of this year?

00:15:04.600 Yeah, I do.

00:15:05.700 I like that line of thinking.

00:15:07.300 Yeah, you know, and that's the self-reflection you need to do, right?

00:15:10.400 And like I talked about, you know,

00:15:13.840 if you want to figure out how to make the last half of the year extraordinary,

00:15:19.100 it's really taking the time to calendarize it.

00:15:22.600 And I come back to that, Mike, because if you don't write it down,

00:15:26.320 you won't accomplish it.

00:15:27.380 so that's the other thing i'm always uh i'm always consistently that not only task list but goal list

00:15:33.940 i'm always tracking it through all throughout the year um and now nowadays it's even easier you know

00:15:40.180 you can put it on your smart sheet you can put it on your calendar excel spreadsheet if need be

00:15:45.460 there's programs out there that actually help you break down your goals into tasks that actually

00:15:52.100 exist online that people can buy into and subscribe to that and they're they're neat right

00:15:57.060 so taskmaster and a few of them are really uh the technology exists and if you needed help on it you

00:16:02.500 know buy one yeah paul a couple of the uh you made some notes here and i really like this

00:16:08.580 a different way to think about time you know it might be nice to share this with the audience

00:16:13.540 listening who wants to so you know send us a message if you're interested in receiving these

00:16:17.140 notes uh 160 160 days may not sound like much but in 160 days you could check this list out this is

00:16:25.860 true lose weight or gain strength with just habits just getting a habit list underway you could read

00:16:34.020 five to ten books in that time yeah put a couple of bucks aside every day and you get a thousand

00:16:40.820 bucks before you know it yeah yeah the wealthy barber right exactly yourself first uh you could

00:16:46.020 write the first draft of a script or a book everybody seems to have a story in them get

00:16:50.420 one of those out of you and see how you feel about yourself when you see it printed in a stack

00:16:54.740 jim lang you know jim actually is an interesting character he's on the show all the time with us

00:16:59.060 he hosts shows uh you know jim writes so many pages a day so he sits down when he gets home

00:17:04.820 and he has a whole writing schedule yep he sits down and he you know he believes you know what

00:17:09.540 it's hemingway wasn't that a hemingway thing hemingway yeah so many words per day so many

00:17:13.780 pages per day that's what and that's how jim writes well how about this uh volunteering here's

00:17:19.460 this is very wild now you and i have a a vast experience with volunteering you work with

00:17:24.260 charities every day uh you know i come from a family that's very involved in charity and have

00:17:29.300 been myself when i see what becomes of participating as a volunteer oh yeah i mean you can't even

00:17:39.460 imagine what if you don't do it i recommend you do it because what comes out of it is friendships

00:17:45.860 like-mindedness you're doing something in a kind environment usually where people want to be

00:17:51.140 helping yeah and then i noticed that the outcome of this volunteering has huge impact on what

00:18:00.020 really we were as canadians and what maybe we need to get back to you know that's volunteer fire

00:18:05.220 service we have wildfires we need people to we need people to care for elderly we have an aging

00:18:11.220 population we know about this yeah you know we we need food banks the food all of these opportunities

00:18:17.380 that might be good for you just to motivate yourself to be part of the community really

00:18:22.260 will have an impact you'll see oh yeah and when you do that it's contagious in your life yeah good

00:18:28.100 karma mike yeah yeah good karma indeed it's back yeah you've got 160 days of good karma opportunity

00:18:34.820 ahead of you i like that how about this uh canada's home to roughly 41 million people imagine

00:18:41.620 if every canadian committed to just one small improvement each day shared one meal planted one

00:18:48.500 tree one act of service within the community you help just one neighbor move something yeah yeah

00:18:55.940 one less hour of scrolling one less hour of email one less hour of yeah well we you you mentioned

00:19:06.040 before the show mike this was actually canadiana at one point it was you know and it's interesting

00:19:11.520 how we've kind of lost that a little bit but you know we did a lot of kind of country ride group

00:19:16.660 events you know and and things that we all dedicated to do as a nation in unison whether

00:19:22.720 was recycling or whether it was community work but there were like there was a time when you know

00:19:28.800 you knew your neighbor was going to be roughly doing the same thing you were because we were

00:19:33.200 all committed to a cause right yeah yeah i'll see you down at the recycling depot on saturday it's

00:19:38.400 my week and it's your week and uh yeah you know afterward why don't we all go for lunch someplace

00:19:43.360 yeah yeah or you know it's it's good uh goodwill month you know we're gonna all meet down at the

00:19:49.040 you know the center and do our whatever you know we're volunteering here but there was you know

00:19:54.480 it always charms me when i hear that somebody in a neighborhood has done a food drive and

00:19:58.400 and really all that takes is leaving a note on everybody's door in a bag and say please fill this

00:20:03.680 and we're coming back on this date yeah remember remember clean your park oh yeah yeah oh yeah that

00:20:09.520 was a big deal there were months you know again campaigns to actually get out and just clean your

00:20:13.920 streets clean your park clean your neighborhood you know uh store restoration remember store

00:20:19.200 restorations you know we also get out with paint we also there used to be like a thousand of us

00:20:24.880 painting the storefronts down on it yeah yeah it was a and uh the fire hydrants was another one

00:20:30.320 that we had at a point uh you know there was there was uh more more attraction to things like

00:20:36.240 the 4-h club uh scouting guiding all of these various elements were really part of the fabric

00:20:42.880 of i volunteered as a as a cub leader and a beaver leader when my kids were oh yeah a lot of men did

00:20:49.600 and and that was just part of the culture that i grew up in as well uh my dad was part of the

00:20:54.880 lions club all of those they were part of the fabric rotary all part of the fabric of what

00:21:00.240 drove a community picnic and all these other things you know rotary is still alive on the east coast

00:21:05.280 it is yeah you know and what i mean roadies alive everywhere but quite frankly it's dwindling

00:21:10.400 and most of canada but when i was shocked i went to uh an event um in pei and i went into it was

00:21:18.640 a rotary event i was invited i'd given a free ticket to go um i was going to meet don mcdougall

00:21:24.160 who uh former uh president of labats and brought the blue jays to canada all right that's a great

00:21:31.280 interview yeah i wanted to set up the podcast i wanted to say hello to him i've never met him

00:21:34.880 before and he was speaking publicly yeah um that's gonna be a good one i can't wait for that and i

00:21:39.600 went i expected a hundred you know i think you had rotary clubs i thought because don speaking

00:21:43.840 there'll be a hundred or so people i walked in and there were i don't know between 400 and 500

00:21:48.640 people there at the rotary club event what was the event rotary yeah but was it like a specific

00:21:54.000 nope just rotary day they were having lobster and watching and having him speak and they were

00:21:58.960 talking about you know what was going on with the rotary club and they were all just they all just

00:22:02.640 come out to rotary that's like wow wow so cool that is really cool yeah and he brought back a

00:22:08.240 lot of memories right it was kind of neat when i was young and you know the volunteering and then

00:22:12.720 the rotary members brought out all the food for the people who had bought a ticket yeah it was

00:22:17.280 it's pretty cool i do love that kind of event when i was young the italian community was growing in

00:22:21.520 the neighborhood where i was there was a group called uh if i say it wrong my apologies family

00:22:26.320 of furlan and it was a furlan based uh community yeah i loved it the the food was amazing they had

00:22:34.080 had dances yeah yeah it was uh and things like that i think uh you do have the opportunity a

00:22:40.020 friend of ours one day uh i won't name him because i think it's a secret society but he decided he

00:22:45.340 wanted to be a freemason oh wow and that was a good commitment for him it gave him a dedicated

00:22:51.840 thing to do every week it was a process and a group of individuals so picking something to do

00:22:57.120 in the next 160 days not a bad idea really you know it's a great idea and mike you know just a

00:23:03.180 reminder for everyone so I do you know at the halfway mark of the year I do a financial checkup

00:23:08.660 so again look at all my budgets go through all my accounting work you know this weekend's going

00:23:16.120 to be a rainy weekend so we're going to have a rainy Sunday so we're actually doing a bunch of

00:23:21.200 accounting stuff to catch up so to make all the all the businesses all their accounting is caught

00:23:25.800 up to the half year mark you know so at the end of the year we're not playing catch up so we're

00:23:30.380 not having this crazy you know run for the money at the end it's a great way to go yeah and we do

00:23:36.280 it uh we do it in six months and we do it right on the 12 month mark so we're kind of all set and

00:23:40.960 got everything figured out so we can goal set and you know uh we can do some forecasting and for

00:23:46.520 those of you you know looking at your own personal goals it's a good time to actually sit down with

00:23:50.560 your investment advisor so go grab your investment advisor find out how you're doing figure out the

00:23:56.160 trends you know there's a lot going on in the bond market right now there's a lot going on in

00:24:00.480 the stock market you know you get to check and see how everything's going yeah it's well advised

00:24:06.560 how's your rsp doing yeah you know it's so funny at the halfway mark i noticed that my wife starts

00:24:12.960 to think about things like we need to price new insurance yeah you know oh uh what's the renovation

00:24:20.000 budget i live in an older home what's the renovation budget where does that come from

00:24:23.360 what's our plan our strategy on that because the snow's melted you can see what's going on

00:24:27.440 at the building that you live in yeah and so you know that's another one is to really kind of take

00:24:31.760 a look at your home or cottage at that at that moment and say okay where am i two years from

00:24:36.480 now with this building and what's my strategy yeah a lot of trades you know being in the trade you

00:24:41.920 know trade business for years you only have so many days where the sun is shining so you only

00:24:46.640 have so many days to work so it's actually halfway through the year you're kind of in the middle of

00:24:51.600 you're the busiest part of your season because it's summer season the weather's nice you can

00:24:55.120 build fast you got to build till the snow comes because after that it gets quiet so you know you

00:25:00.880 you get an opportunity at that point to say okay how much work do i have you know on the books

00:25:06.240 where am i going to end up for the year and how am i getting through the winter right yeah very

00:25:09.760 important yeah and i think many many trades many uh you know farming certain certain even contracts

00:25:17.520 uh coast to coast in canada are weather dependent and seasonal dependent oh yeah

00:25:23.280 so uh mid-season planning what do you think should we have the you know we should do maybe

00:25:28.320 oh uh the power of one percent this came up in the notes can i can i talk about this for just

00:25:32.080 one second yeah i love it one percent every day doesn't feel dramatic i like this okay this is a

00:25:37.040 motivator yeah but consistent consistency compounds what a great statement maybe we should put that

00:25:44.080 somewhere in the description of the show consistency compounds one extra page becomes

00:25:49.440 book one walk becomes hundreds of kilometers one swim triathlon uh one dollar becomes savings one

00:25:56.480 conversation becomes friendship one healthy meal becomes a lifestyle and that is true i don't know

00:26:03.200 if you remember i went through the vegetable uh juice yes i don't know what happened there but i

00:26:07.920 need to get back to that but i went through the the uh nutrition phase of uh juicing and things

00:26:12.880 like that uh it started with one drink did you feel better like 100 okay just gonna make okay

00:26:20.800 let me get back to the juicing okay well so we're doing fasting right and soon as as soon as i got

00:26:26.160 over the one week we're gonna do a show on it um you know what i wouldn't change like i'm gonna

00:26:32.800 fast for the rest of my life i just i don't i never see myself leaving it interesting yeah

00:26:38.560 and that changed in just one week well i had to get my sugar so my sugar rush you know that's

00:26:43.840 sugar jitters yeah yeah so i had to clear my system of all the glucose and sugars you know

00:26:48.340 the white sugars and quite frankly once i got clear of that and i got through that shaky time

00:26:52.920 i would never go back fascinating yeah life-changing halfway through okay we've got our

00:26:59.220 gang nick are you over there christoph okay why don't we do this why don't we do a little bit of

00:27:05.560 a why don't you run us through the hot list of questions and we'll do a rapid fire round of

00:27:10.880 questions to see how we're going to do over the next 160 days. You know, Christophe, I know you

00:27:18.520 had something to do with this because there's a section in here called soul. This may be the most

00:27:23.640 important pillar it says underneath. He's a soulful individual. So I'll share this with you.

00:27:28.820 You know, call your parents more often. When you said, do I need to make time for a specific

00:27:34.100 individual in my family what a beautiful time to think about that you've got a half a year now

00:27:38.660 between now and new year's to help make their year and your year memorable forgive somebody

00:27:43.700 nick we're over it okay uh volunteer we mentioned that pray or meditate more than you do if that's

00:27:50.220 where you center yourself and and uh i do see great value in that the sunset over the rockies

00:27:57.180 you know take a minute to breathe the tide rolling over the atlantic take a second to actually

00:28:02.640 appreciate it don't just stand there absorb it yeah you know thank a mentor thank you paul

00:28:09.640 thank a mentor somebody who's made the last year of your life uh memorable and usable you know

00:28:16.380 they've made an impact all right guys let's see how paul and i do name the guy give the question

00:28:22.160 and we'll see how we end up here play along at home by the way i think this is a good exercise

00:28:27.660 for everybody what's going to happen is you guys are going to ask us a question we're going to

00:28:32.960 rapid fire answer pick your person and pick the poison all right um let's see um paul

00:28:41.880 what habit changed your life the most the last 160 days oh getting up early okay

00:28:50.020 making a note about this getting up early stuff go ahead next one keep them coming

00:28:54.600 okay um where do you think then you'll be 160 days from now if you simply refuse to quit

00:29:03.060 who's this oh you like okay so give me the question again where do you think you'll be

00:29:09.520 in 160 days from now if you simply refuse to quit if i simply refuse to quit i will be

00:29:17.220 more muscular and i will have better core fitness

00:29:21.420 christophe who and what's the question

00:29:25.640 and for mr mcucci uh what's one healthy habit that almost anyone could start tomorrow

00:29:34.260 oh fasting yeah i knew that was gonna come out and that's an easy one i talked about it

00:29:39.520 we should do an episode on that oh yeah we are okay that's that's a good one because i want to

00:29:44.220 learn more yeah it sounds hard no okay it's easy christophe what else you got um one for mr mike

00:29:50.480 what's one belief you've changed what's one belief you you've changed that's changed your mind over

00:29:57.880 the years oh that's a great question uh that i don't have the answers that's i think yeah i think

00:30:10.320 answers are to be found you don't have all the answers yeah yeah that's a good one and so then

00:30:15.360 a follow-up what's something you're still trying to learn today i don't have all the answers still

00:30:22.400 trying to learn that ego what can you do go ahead next one nick over to you if you could encourage

00:30:34.880 canadians to focus on one thing over the next 160 days of what would it be

00:30:40.240 oh and kurt uh get involved politically and vote when you can great advice nick you got one for

00:30:48.800 uncle mike what's something you're still trying to learn today to get up early

00:30:57.040 christophe one for mr micucci do you think people over complicate getting healthier

00:31:08.280 oh 100 100 it you know it's interesting uh i got involved in biohacking this year

00:31:15.320 and everything i knew about fitness changed so we'll be doing shows on it but you know i thought

00:31:21.880 long workouts were a thing they're not they're not any better beneficial more beneficial for you

00:31:27.340 um my cardio endurance training has changed my whole fitness regime has changed even the way

00:31:33.700 that you apparently feed yourself eat yeah yeah yeah all right i'm ready all right what's one

00:31:41.420 belief you've changed your mind about over the years god nick uh oh uh

00:31:51.900 that we are the products of a higher power i believe that more over the years with experience

00:32:04.880 and just watching how this world turns you know this period of time in your life maybe you're

00:32:09.400 like i don't know but all this cockamamie universal god stuff but there's a higher power

00:32:16.200 no doubt in my mind i've adapted to that way of firm belief faith faith my man faith 0.73

00:32:24.440 okay somebody break paul's balls now coming in with the kind of the question what's one thing

00:32:32.580 canadians used to do more often that we should bring back oh oh uh sing the national anthem 0.99

00:32:42.860 oh you kicked mine in the ass that's a great point we do not we apply a lot of uh land 0.97

00:32:49.960 acknowledgments and less national anthems every day focus on the national anthem yeah yeah and 0.99

00:32:55.600 really understand it you know it's interesting just and i won't go into it long when we came

00:32:59.600 up with the name for the company it's amazing how many people thought it was american it's in our

00:33:07.040 and national it's in our national anthem you know your national anthem and know how to sing it

00:33:11.680 you remember this we came out with the name and people would be like oh you're trumpers

00:33:15.440 yeah he doesn't even know this line from our national anthem i don't know where that came from

00:33:19.920 yeah yeah good one i like this all right what's uh one canadian value that collectively we hope

00:33:28.000 doesn't disappear i do think volunteerism is that is that word i think that and it's actually i wish

00:33:34.680 it wasn't even a word i wish it was just community yeah um i saw it when i went to atlantic canada

00:33:40.040 how strong it is compared to central you know central canada right now well that's how you know

00:33:45.220 who's okay in your community that's how you know who you can rely on and exactly it's how you become

00:33:50.380 relied on yeah volunteerism i think is is the one thing it was nice and then just the kind of

00:33:57.580 the canada area what makes you both optimistic about canada's future over the next 160 days

00:34:04.460 well mark carney's got a plan and so we're going to have all these big projects and i'm pretty

00:34:10.380 sure that we're going to have our bridge making money so 160 days in canada what makes me

00:34:16.640 optimistic our potential you know we we do have a lot of potential it just again we just have to

00:34:24.160 find a way to tap it uh i think that's a really poignant one yeah yeah all right nick give me one

00:34:32.260 all right what simple thing brings the most joy that doesn't cost any money gardening oh smile

00:34:40.240 a gardening smile seeing someone smile and i saw it on the east coast when i went to halifax just

00:34:47.420 i realized that just having people smiling at me was like a wild refreshing experience

00:34:53.520 it's true you know as you travel outside of the major centers uh anywhere yeah people tend to

00:34:59.320 smile more they greet you with a smile yeah it makes a difference they were happy by the way

00:35:04.500 if you talk with a smile it sounds different yeah it does your your voice sounds different okay give

00:35:10.900 us each one more and we'll wrap this puppy up and take us into the next 160 days together so is there

00:35:17.920 a goal you've been putting off that today is the perfect day to begin yeah more patience toward my

00:35:23.160 fellow workers yes i will start today so my apologies for what just occurred guys

00:35:31.560 this is so we're going to switch over into a rapid fire round where we're going to give you

00:35:35.560 the story that was the rapid fire round what is going on here okay look i'll give you three on

00:35:41.800 the rapid fire round okay three i don't know what your plan is go with my plan give me three rapid

00:35:47.080 fire questions three for paul three for me okay three um finish the sentence okay yeah so mr mike

00:35:54.440 you're up first okay okay success is i didn't rapid answer this family canada needs less

00:36:07.480 negativity every canadian should every canadian should be proud to be canadian

00:36:13.800 that's how i feel yep okay hit paul now mr mccucci you got discipline is oh necessary

00:36:21.480 the best investment is oh gold holy gold get up early

00:36:28.740 and the hardest habit to build is discipline i would have to agree with that yeah discipline

00:36:38.920 the discipline discipline to prioritize yeah i can see that yeah so there's that's a hard

00:36:45.040 they have so many priorities especially today with technology it's actually figuring out

00:36:49.060 and with family and everything else you have going and that and how busy things are it's it's the

00:36:54.440 discipline to prioritize thank you gentlemen you read questions terribly but you write them

00:36:59.860 beautifully thank you for playing the game i appreciate that christoph and and nick look i

00:37:04.680 hope the next 160 days for us here at TPL is more of this, more of the group making the effort

00:37:11.240 together, getting across the country, meeting Canadians, and making a defined effort to keep

00:37:19.460 conversations going. And I wish that for all of us here at TPL. Yeah, happy 160 days. Thanks, Paul.

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True Patriot Love - August 07, 2026

Can You Transform Your Year in the Next 160 Days？

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