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How many times have do you know people that have set goals, whether it's like a New Year's resolution and it's only around the corner. They set the New Year's resolutions and then all these good intentions, you know, january out of the way, february comes March. It's the classic. In it, the gyms get empty again. The goal or the thing that they want to do, it just fails and it fails. And then you wait all the way till Christmas and it's like it happens again Also throughout the year. You know I've lost count in historically when I was younger. How many times you know we've all done it, we've all set goals or we've had dreams and an outcome that we want to achieve and we don't end up getting it. For loads of reasons. A lot of it's BS and there's obviously some genuine reasons Life gets in the way, et cetera.

Speaker 1: 0:46

So today, don't go anywhere because I want to share with you a system that I learned many, many years ago and that I put into practice and got. It just blew me away. It was transformational.

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This podcast, beyond bathroom blues, is our way to document the lessons we've learned on growing our business Men's IBS mastery towards helping one million men. Our hope is you use the lessons and wisdom for your own journey and maybe someday soon partner with us to achieve IBS Mastery and dominate in your personal and professional life. We hope you share and enjoy.

Speaker 1: 1:17

The reason I wanted to share this with you today because so many people that come across my radar with IBS men, irritable bowel syndrome and say you know, I really want to get this under control. I want to master these symptoms day in, day out, so I can have an amazing life. I can do the things that I want to do, have that good intention, but they never get the outcome. They fail no matter what. They try diets, seeing specialists might even come to work with us, whatever that looks like, reading books, this, that, the other and we still fail. So today I'm going to share a seven-step system with you that's going to be. It's simple. It is really really simple to do. It's not easy. It's really. It's going to make you think. So if you're not into thinking and if you're not willing to put the work in for yourself, your family, your legacy, you know to earn more, be more then this is not for you. You can switch off now and maybe go and watch cat or dog videos on Instagram reels, but if you're in the market for something that's going to transform your life not just your IBS, but your wealth, your health, your happiness, the big three and goal setting and getting things that you want in life, and obviously you can pass this down to your children, to your friends, et cetera. Then don't go anywhere, because I'm going to share some. I'm going to give you some stories, some examples of in my life where it's happened and where it hasn't happened, and then also, towards the end of the video, I'm going to tell you how to do it. So it's not I'm not just going to show you what this is. I am going to obviously explain that and where I got it from, but I'm going to teach you, show you how I did it, and then you could maybe think, you could maybe try it yourself and, who knows, it could transform your life and I hope it does so without further ado. How do we crush these big goals? I mean, we've got Christmas around the corner now. If you celebrate Christmas, it's the holiday season. We're in December, 2024 is nearly finished, it's come to an end and we're almost stepping into the next year, 2025.

Speaker 1: 3:19

The world is crazy. We've got if you're in America, we've got the republicans and again taking over in january for the inauguration with donald trump and his party. Be good for some people, it'll be excellent for others, it'll be outstanding for others, but it'll be a nightmare for others. So, whatever and this is not a politics video, but there's loads of stuff happening. It's all crazy still out, you know, in russia and ukraine, israel, iran there's this that the other the world is crazy, but at the same, crazy is still out in Russia and Ukraine, israel, iran there's this that the other the world is crazy, but, at the same time, a lot of that is outside of our control, but what we can do is control the controllables things that are inside of our control, inside of your control.

Speaker 1: 3:57

Now, obviously, these videos are geared around men with IBS, so have an open mind. Again, if you're a man and you're watching this and you've got a good imagination, you can read between the lines. There's a lot of metaphors in here, but it all it all steers and aims points towards IBS, but you can apply it to anything. You can apply it to any area of your health. Whether you want to lose, you want to gain muscle mass, maybe you want to earn more income, this seven-step system can be used for all of that as well. Happy with that. So, without further ado, we're going to look at how to trust these goals in 2025 and beyond and have your best year, and not just have your best year next year. But if you put this into practice, you could use this the rest of your life and it will transform the way you think, the way you do things and it will keep you on track.

Speaker 1: 4:48

People say all the time you've got to have a purpose. You've got to have a purpose, a reason, a reason why to do the thing that you want to do, and it's the same with anything. If you haven't got a reason why to do something in life or in business, be honest with yourself and I'll give you some examples from my life and when I was in the military, it didn't really happen. And in business as well, whether you're an entrepreneur, things don't happen unless you've got a big enough reason why, a big enough purpose, to keep you on track. It's the reason why I'm doing what I'm doing now. Don't get anything from this other than me giving you this information to hopefully transform a few of your lives moving forward. That is worth more weight in gold for me, and so, again, that's my purpose. It's for me, this is like a spiritual thing where I know that clearly we get we get clients as well, but this is helping people that we might never even work with. You know what I mean. So there's there's a reason and there's a lot more, and I'll share some stuff with you in a second. So you've got to have a big fat reason why, a really juicy reason, why feelings, emotions, you've got to tap into there to move forward.

Speaker 1: 5:50

I want to share a story with you. I'm going to be open with you, as always. I'm going to share a story with you from all the way back when I went back to 2003. That are watching the videos and listening to the podcasts, etc. You'll, you'll know the the time when I got ibs, my own gut issues all the way back in 2003, which I shared with you. And again, I'm not going to repeat that story about the ibs journey today, but just as a reminder.

Speaker 1: 6:17

So it's around that time that I was stepping off the gate I say off the gate off the plane in Kuwait city in 2003, I think around March, to fight, as you will. That was we were going to fight in the Iraq war, the Iraq conflict with the American army that you know. Obviously we was in the British army, the infantry, and it was the second Gulf war. Some of you will remember that I went out there. I was overweight, I was fat, I had a, I had a beer belly and I was carrying all the usual bullshit excuses shin splints, injuries and I did have injuries, but I was using that as an excuse at the time not to train, but also I was drinking a lot of beer, I was eating a lot of rubbish food, takeaways and over a period of time up to going to Iraq, I put quite a bit of weight on, which is not good, especially as an infantry soldier. I was a section commander, so I was in charge of seven of the men under my command and, yeah, I wasn't absolutely huge but I was on track for getting there.

Speaker 1: 7:16

And so we get to Q8, and I've never been to war before At this point, I'd been in the army, I was a corporal, I'd been in the army probably over 10 years and we were based in Germany. And I'd been in the army. I was a corporal, I'd been in the army probably over 10 years and we were based in Germany and I'd been on operations Northern Ireland, kosovo, peacekeeping etc. Seen a few stuff, but I'd never been in a war zone. So here I am in Kuwait City with all my battalion, the Duke of Wellington's regiment and the American army are cutting around. There's a few special forces here and there getting ready, there's helicopters flying it all over the place. You know, the things are starting to happen. I'm like, wow, this is really, this is really happening. We're in a, we're in a flipping war zone. This is crazy.

Speaker 1: 7:59

Anyway, to make it even, you know, I guess crazier still is, the sergeant major at the time said to us all right, you need to sit down, guys, on your own, and find a quiet space. And here's a bluey, which is a blue sheet of paper, basically like a self-addressed envelope, and you need to write on there a letter to whoever in your family, your next of kin, your loved one, who's closest to you, your next of kin in the unfortunate event of your death. So if you get killed in action and all these will get held by me in a safety deposit box and should you sadly get taken away and killed in action, that letter will be sent straight away to your wife, husband, mom, dad, whatever. Away to your wife, husband, mum, dad, whatever. I was like blimey, never asked, never done this before. So anyway, there we are, I've got my blueie, I've got a pen, I'm sat down on an old cardboard box turned upside down, and I'm there, I've got my gas mask at the side of me because things were happening. We kept getting attacked, missiles kept hitting around camps and we were having to constantly put our gas mask on and off and, you know, get into a nuclear, biological, blooming chemical kit and take it off on off. It was crazy Because obviously at the time we thought there was weapons of mass destruction again.

Speaker 1: 9:17

So I'm sat there and I'm writing this letter to my now she's now my ex-wife, but at the time I was married and I had three children. I had twin boys who I think at the time were two, two years old, and an eight month, nine month old little girl. And I'm sat there and I, you know dear, I'm like what do I write? What do you? What do you write to somebody that you want them to read, apart from from, yeah, I love you and I love the children, and this, that the other, it's quite upsetting. It is quite upsetting when you're sat there and then you think, and it's, I didn't know at the time but you start thinking at deeper layers, you're pulling the layers back on, kind of like any regrets or maybe things that you've been putting off wanting to do, or things that you notice about yourself or others that you think like when I, if I get through this, if I get through this, I'm going to take massive action.

Speaker 1: 10:09

And one of the things for me, as I mentioned, was I was overweight. I put quite a bit of weight on. I had a bit of a fat, fat belly, a bit chubby. I was fit, so I was really really fit, but I didn't look the part and that's it. I'm gonna get a grip of this. You know, I'm gonna get a grip of this. When I get back, I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna lose this weight now, now, now I'm gonna take action. Now, I'm gonna get rid of this weight and I'm gonna get lean again. I'm gonna get, you know, ripped again and I'm gonna stay lean. I'm not just gonna lose the fat, I'm gonna, I'm gonna keep it off.

Speaker 1: 10:39

And I started thinking, you know why, why do I want to do that? I'm not leading by example for my children, because if they see me, they're only two and eight, nine months, but if they start growing up and I've got all these bad eating habits and lifestyle choices and I'm drinking heavily and got all this weight on. It's not setting them up for success seeing their dad like that, especially when they're meant to be fit soldier dad. So there was a few things there that I started thinking about. I didn't put that in the letter, but you know I obviously wrote this letter and I said, look at the unfortunate. If you're reading this, you know the bad news is the bad news is the worst news if you've got this letter and I obviously poured my heart out in that letter about my children and you know, telling them my feelings and everything else. Know, telling them my feelings and everything else, wow, yeah. So bear that in mind. So that was 2003, to you know.

Speaker 1: 11:29

Come back from Iraq and then moving forwards and, by the way, when I got back from Iraq, so I lost the weight, the weight came off out there, to be fair, eating rations and the red hot heat out on patrol all the time carrying loads of kit. Just four months, four and a half months out there, I came back from Iraq skinny. I was really, really slim and, yeah, probably looked unhealthy Chiseled face and like, no, I'd probably 2%, 3% body fat and I thought, right, I'm at a good starting point now it's like a blessing. There was a blessing in it because I came back from Iraq. Nothing too bad happened out there. To me and the guys it's like, okay, I've got a good starting point now, a good foundation, and all I need to do is keep it off.

Speaker 1: 12:16

But, as you can appreciate, there, with that story of the time, I was in Iraq writing that letter, finding some reasons why a purpose, as you will, to lose the fat, lose the weight, get lean, get healthier, even though I was fit and have that the reason for that. You know, at the end of the day, I didn't want the worst to happen. I didn't want to not come back from Iraq and have my children, at such a young age, not have a dad. And when you have that kind of realization, it gives you a purpose, that it goes from logic into your heart, into the feelings, and once it hits, once it goes from there into there, things start to happen. Things start to happen.

Speaker 1: 12:52

But I didn't know at the time. I didn't know about the seven layer system that I'm going to share with you, because I've not read the book, I've not put that into practice. I think that was looking back. As I said before, that was an element of it, unbeknown to me at the time, and we're going to dive deeper. So here I am. I'm quite good at goal setting, anyway. Or I was in the army, I was getting promoted, and this, that the other, and I kind of nailed it.

Speaker 1: 13:16

I wasn't always successful with certain goals and we never are. You know, some goals you don't, we don't achieve, for whatever reason life gets in the way. Some things aren't achievable. We can try and genuinely try, but sometimes most things are, most things are, so that's that. So then, what happened from that point? Then, moving forward, we're going to skip forward a few years now to and I'm going to give you an example of not having any purpose, because that was me having a little bit of purpose there, as you will, as you can see reasons why it was for my mainly for my children, for my own health, for my, for myself and for them uh, to lose that weight and and to get, you know, healthier again when I came back from iraq, another occasion where and before we were going to give you one more example then I'm going to dive into the seven layers and how it works and how it transformed my life in an area and I'll give you an example of that as well.

Speaker 1: 14:08

So stick around, going back to about 2006, around 2006, I just finished a promotional course in the infantry called Senior Brecon or the Platoon Sergeant's Battle Course. I finished that in Brecon at the battle school in Wales and I was fit, really, really fit because, as you can probably work out a battle course and it's for promotion to sergeant to be a platoon sergeant in the infantry. So to do that it was obviously sleep deprivation, loads of running around, carrying loads of, you know, heavy kit, working under pressure, etc. Etc. So I came back from that course, I passed it, I did, I got a good pass on that and I came back again super slim, super fit and I thought, right, I'm gonna, I'm gonna address a little itch of mine throughout my army career and it was probably a seed planted as a child when I watched the special air service, the SES, on tv as a kid, going into the Iranian embassy. If you've not, it's on youtube, have a look at it, it's gleaming where they've got. It was the first time, I think, ever in history where the SES were on television, televised live on the news, and I remember watching that as a kid and thinking, wow.

Speaker 1: 15:21

So an itch of mine in the military, because I was keen, I was doing all these you know I was a corporal and a sergeant and all these courses was to. I wanted to try the SAS. I wanted to be, I wanted to be part of the Special Forces since a kid. So I went on this. I put my name down for the SES and I started training for it in 2006 and I was, you know, properly going for it with a friend of mine who's in the same unit and I went on selection and at the time there was a lot going on in my life.

Speaker 1: 15:47

I was starting to. My marriage was falling apart with my now ex-wife that was starting to fall apart at the hinges. Things weren't too great at home. You financially as well. Because of all that, there was a few debts piling up. There's a lot going on, a lot going on and in in work, everything was fine. I was going up through the ranks.

Speaker 1: 16:09

Obviously I was on ses selection. Now my name was down for it. I was, I was attending this course. So that's, you know, it's a really good thing. It means you're an awesome soldier that you fit and that's not an ego I. It means you're an awesome soldier, that you fit, and that's not an ego. I'm just giving you an example.

Speaker 1: 16:22

So I then went on SES selection and I probably got to the end of week, second week, where it's the huls phase and you do something called the fan dance, which is about 16 so miles, with loads of kit on and a weapon, and you've got to go. You've got four hours to do 16 miles up and down. It's called Pen Y Van, it's a mountain in Wales. You've got to go up it up the mountain, down round it right to a turnaround point and then back again in four hours or less. Now I did that and I got in at about three and a half hours, three hours, forty minutes. So I was well under the time.

Speaker 1: 16:57

Flying around, it fit and just on the way in my ankle went over. Just as I was finishing Sod's law, my ankle went over and at the time I didn't know, but I knew I was badly injured. It was all swelled up straight away. There was bruising and I tore the ligaments in my left ankle. So I got on the back of the truck feeling sorry for myself, popped a few painkillers I had the weekend off because that was on a Friday. So I had the weekend off ice packs, leg up in the air, all this jazz to try and get my leg better, ready for Monday because I had the hills phase carried on.

Speaker 1: 17:31

This four weeks is the hills phase, so I got to week three. You know, after week, ankles in tatters, all strapped up, painkillers to the max, and I tried. You know. I kept going and doing all the yomps across the mountains and I was coming over the time. You know I was getting round, navigating round, okay, but I was over the time because I couldn't go fast enough because of my ankle and in the end the course officer, an SAS, sas captain, pulled me to one side and he he said you know, glennie says you need to go see a medic, you're limping and your, your timings are all off. Go, are you all right? So well, my uncle and he's looked at my ankle. He said, right, go and see the medic. And the medic says, yeah, you're not gonna, you're not gonna get through this walking and running around on that dodgy, on torn ligaments, whatever. You need to go get to the hospital, get it looked at, get it sorted out. So I came off that course, medically, so medically taken off it. So I didn't get in, I didn't get badged and I didn't join the SAS.

Speaker 1: 18:28

And it's not something I tell everybody, it's something I've kept close to my heart, which you'll understand in a minute, because it's a bit embarrassing when you fail something. I'm not, I don't like failing, as you probably get to, as you get to know me on these channels, these videos and stuff. I like success. Who doesn't you know what I mean? Who doesn't like to be successful? Now, obviously I don't. We're not successful at everything in life, but it is nice to be successful.

Speaker 1: 18:50

And I felt like a failure. You know I'd come off SES selection and all these big dreams of being in the SES and all this sort of stuff. But, being transparent, my heart was not in that. My heart wasn't in it. So, again, it was probably a blessing in disguise, getting injured, because if I'd have not got injured and just carried on, I'd have probably passed the hills phase and then gone to the jungle and I would have probably quit. I probably would when things got difficult and tricky. Do you know what I mean? Because I was even having doubts on the hills phase.

Speaker 1: 19:26

I was thinking, if I get in the SAS. They go all over the world doing things they're not allowed to talk about. I'm not really going to see my children. I'm splitting up with my wife, so seeing my kids is going to be limited anyway. It's going to see my children. I'm splitting up with my wife, so seeing my kids is going to be limited anyway. It's going to be. It's going to be tricky being in the army full stop, so being in the sas, it's going to be 10x more difficult to see them.

Speaker 1: 19:46

So I had all these. I had all these thoughts going around in my head, as well as other stuff you can imagine. So my heart, my heart, wasn't in it. I didn't have pulling it back to the story of iraq. I didn't have a big enough reason why to get into the SS. I just wanted to get in because the kudos, it looked good to have the Desert Beret, the blue stable belt and be part of that elite regiment. I assumed, or I believed, I was good enough. I was a keen soldier, very professional. I thought I could add value in that arena, in that space, and thought, yeah, let's do this and it's loads more money. But it was for them, it's for the wrong reasons, it wasn't for a deep, deep enough reasons and I'm going to go on to. So that was an example.

Speaker 1: 20:28

There I came off injured but, being transparent, if I'd have stayed on I would have quit. My heart wasn't in it. I would not have, I believe. Now, looking back, knowing what I know now, I wouldn't have got in and got through, you know, into the SAS at that time. Then, moving forwards, I could have gone back for it Again because of my kids and stuff. I didn't bother. But what I then did is I sat down and again reasons why I wasn't really in a position in the infantry because we were still going away a lot.

Speaker 1: 20:58

I was destined at the time to go to Afghanistan, done all the training for that and vaccinations et cetera, and luckily, I guess in hindsight, luckily I just didn't end up going to Afghanistan. My platoon I was platoon sergeant got stood down from going out there at that time and I had a bit of a, I guess, thought that I'm not really seeing my children. They're crying all the time. They're missing me. I'm missing them. I'm single because I'd split up with her. Now Life's pretty poo. I need to sort out a divorce and all this drama. What can I do? I don't want to leave the army. What can I do where I can still stay in the army, support them financially and be in a position where I can see them?

Speaker 1: 21:40

And then I looked at joining another unit called the small arm school corps, which is specialist. It's not special forces but it's more of a. Again, you've got to do it from inside the army. You can't just join from civilian street and and I did that this time my meeting. That's difficult. It's not as difficult as the Special Forces SAS, by no means nowhere near as difficult as that. Sas selection and them boys is the best special. I'm not just saying this because I'm from the UK and I'm biased. They're the best Special Forces unit in the world. The English SAS Hands down.

Speaker 1: 22:13

If you're watching this and you're a Navy SEALs veteran, apologies, it's just my belief. Sorry, you'll say the same. You know Americans will say it's Navy SEALs veteran. Apologies, it's just my belief. Sorry, you'll say the same. You know Americans will say it's Navy SEALs, it's Delta Force and that's cool. That's cool and it's like right. What can I do? So I always joined the SCSC, not quite the SCS.

Speaker 1: 22:31

This is more of a specialist in terms of becoming a subject matter expert for the British Army with weapons, ammunition, explosives and training and coaching, so that basically helping people succeed internally officers and non-commissioned officers in their careers, and being able to train. It's like train the train and all this jazz. And when I went on that course, through that six-month selection phase, I had literally a stack of reasons to pass that and get in. Because the lifestyle of being in that unit was you get a lot of weekends off kids, you get promoted, pay rise, you get promoted every two years, guaranteed, unless you're an idiot. So pay rise, pay rise, pay rise, pension, pension money, which means I can then further support myself and the kids financially, give them more opportunity, because money gives you opportunity, it gives you choices rather than scratching around for money.

Speaker 1: 23:28

So I had all these reasons and then for myself, you know it's something, it's a sense of achievement, I'm doing something more unique than just staying in the field army. And there was all this stuff, there was loads more. There was like a big stack of reasons of purpose to go and do that. And when I went in on that course, not only did I pass that course, I came top of that intake. I came top and got a distinguished pass and then when I got down to Wales and became an instructor and did that job, I was one of the best in that job and I don't say that as ego or whatever. I'm just showing you how powerful it is to have purpose and have reasons why to achieve a goal had I have known that years ago and all that jazz. Now you've got all that context and hopefully you can reflect on your own life. Maybe it's in business, in relationships, in your health, with IBS. You've tried and failed. You've tried and failed, but you've got to ask yourself why do you keep failing or why do you not keep getting the outcome that maybe that you're after?

Speaker 1: 24:33

Now what we'll talk about is the seven layers of success. I'll tell you where I got it from and I'll give you some sources for further educating yourself if need be. So I've come across a book called Millionaire Success Habits, I think it's called, by Dean Graziosi, an American entrepreneur, multi-millionaire, an amazing guy, fantastic. I followed him for a long time, absorbed tons of his content and I read that book and he mentioned in there about the seven layers of success for purpose. After this video I'll put a link. I will put a link, you know, when you see the videos coming up on the screen. I found a video I dug it out for you earlier. It's about six years old Dean Graziosi talking about it. I'm going to put that on there because he'll put a different spin on it to what I will. I'll put my spin on it, how I experienced it and what it did for me, and I'll let him do his bit as well, if you want to watch it what?

Speaker 1: 25:19

what is that? What is the seven layers? Now it's pretty much having an outcome. So let's pull it back to IBS. You want to get IBS success. You want to manage your symptoms, you want to have IBS mastery. You want to live a fulfilling life and not have your diarrhea, constipation, blowing, feeling sick, stinking in the fart and whatever. Whatever the symptoms are, it's just the symptoms, their surface level. What are those symptoms doing to you? Or what are they not allowing you to do? You know, by having symptoms, what are you? You know, where is it affecting your life? And you need to get clear on this, guys. You've got to get clear on it because until you can get crystal clear on how the thing is that's affecting you, that you want to and you want to achieve the outcome, it ain't gonna happen. It's gonna be absolutely nails. You know, difficult to achieve success if you don't know why. You've got to have a starting point. You must have a starting point, okay, and again, I'm going to share something else with you in a second that's going to help you be a game changer. I'll mention something in a second. Then you've got to know why. It's basically the reason why.

Speaker 1: 26:27

Why do you want to have ibs mastery. Why do you want to have ibs mastery? Why do you want to sort your symptoms out and manage your symptoms for ibs? That's the first level. Remember, there's seven, so we've got seven levels now. So the first one is why do you want the thing that you want and write it down? Grab a piece of paper and a pen and write it down. Sit in silence, no one around, no distractions, and write it down and then ask yourself well, why do I want IBS mastery? Why do I want to manage my symptoms? Well, I want to manage my symptoms because it is dominating my life and it's ruining opportunities and it's a pain in the arse, basically, isn't it? But what are they? They are surface level. I'm in my head. So this is the thing. So, first, why I'm in my head, surface level. Why are these symptoms doing my head in? Why are these symptoms making me miss opportunities? What opportunities am I missing? Well, I miss parents evening, a couple of nights with my kids, with my ex-wife getting in touch with me saying can you drive down to parents evening Because my symptoms were in the way, I couldn't get off the toilet.

Speaker 1: 27:34

So there's all these things, the consequences. I've soiled my pants before while I've been out in the army for a run and I used to take spares from there Embarrassing. So that was a nightmare. I had to dive in the bushes and get changed. I don't want that to happen again.

Speaker 1: 27:49

So there's a few things. I've had my kids. I pulled my kids out of the cinema once on a weekend because I needed to dash to toilet and they were so young I couldn't leave them sat in the cinema on their own. So you pull them into the blooming so I could go to the toilet. Embarrassing, stinks, you know having them. What are they thinking? Are they going to get sick at ibs? Because you can pass it on to your kids? So there's all this stuff.

Speaker 1: 28:10

So I'm still surface level. I'm in my head. Yeah, there's a bit of feeling attached to it. Why do I want to get ibs mastery? Why do you want to get IBS mastery? Why do you want to get IBS mastery? Write it down.

Speaker 1: 28:22

Okay, it could be that you are afraid, if you're honest with yourself, that if it carries on and you miss too much work and have brain fog or low energy, you could get laid off. You could affect your business or affect your employment. Why is that important to you? Why is it important that you don't let it affect your appointment? Well, if it affects my this is second layer now Well, if it affects my employment or it affects my money, ultimately that's going to affect mine and my children and my partner's lifestyle. Whether you're married, you've got a girlfriend, boyfriend, husband, wife, whatever, it's going to affect them as well. Why is that important that it doesn't affect them and doesn't affect you? Well, because that'll have been hurt emotionally. Now you know, and we're already, we're asking ourselves. You're asking yourself why, at a deeper level, and what happens is you're pulling the layers back and you're taking it from being logic down into emotional and you'll start coming out with things that you've never thought of before, that's buried in your head, things that are important to you. You know, to the point where some I mean I've seen demonstrations, you know people doing this where it's got to the point where even the third level down it's.

Speaker 1: 29:34

I don't want to be a failure Because I was a failure as a child at school. I don't want to be a failure Because I was a failure as a child at school. I failed things at school and I don't want to feel that way again. I got bullied. It can go all the way back then, but we forget things, we push things down and we forget. We suppress, suppress and we go forward in life and it's digging out why. And when you pull that out from inside, whether you get to level five or all the way, keep going. You've got purpose and you'll be unstoppable. I'm telling you now, you'll be unstoppable, absolutely. Now.

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I use this system loads of times when I read it in that book. I put it into practice and I've used it time and time again. You don't always need seven. You can do three or maybe three reasons, wise enough, maybe five, but seven is like the, I guess, the sweet spot. Do you know what I mean? I've always wanted to write a book. Well, for a long time I thought it's a book. It's a bit of a legacy, you know, for my children to have my name on a book and that was like surface level in my head and I never got around to writing one. Then one day I started this is before I did the seven layers. I started writing a book and it's on my desk. I'm looking at my screen. It's on my desktop and it's a third of the way through and it's just been left there for years, so I never got it finished. And then I read that Millionaire Success Habits, the Seven Layers, and I thought I'm going to apply these seven layers to writing a book.

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And then, before you knew it, so when I sat down, I grabbed a notebook and pen. Why do I want to write a book? To leave a legacy, to be an author, surface level logic and, yeah, to write. It was like to write a book. I just want to write one. Why? Why is that important to leave a legacy? Why is it important to pass on your skills and methods to somebody? You know the reader out there well? Because it's going to change lives. It's going to help me help other people to help change their life so they can use skills that I know work.

Speaker 1: 31:35

Because I've got that wisdom and I've put them into practice time and time again in terms of uh, just spoiler alert so that when I wrote the book, ibs inversion, inversion, think. So inversion thinking is what I used in the back end of my military career and I've used it time and time again. I use it today and it's phenomenal. But when I wrote this book, or when I went into starting to write this, which is published and it's sold loads of copies and it's helped loads of people, it's like I had to get a purpose of why I want to leave that book. So I've got my name. I could get you know, I've got killed tomorrow. I've got that out there. For me it's a bit of a legacy Not that I'd know if something happened to me, but it's the name, the family name, my daughter's name, maybe something they can be proud of. But deeper than that, it's so I can be successful. I've been unsuccessful before. It's so I can have something out there that's successful. But more than that, the third, fourth level, so I can help people. I want to help people, I want to help you if you've not read that, but I want to help you know. That's why I'm making these videos, that's why I write the book, because for me it's at such a deep level. More than money, more than just selling it and making three pound or two pound or two dollars or whatever is on flipping Amazon, it's the fact that it can help transform someone's life. It can help by putting the knowledge in there and the wisdom in that into practice, can help men get them stuck, because we go, there's a thing in it. We go around in life with things we don't know. Sometimes you don't know what you don't know. We're stuck, you can't see the woods through the trees and that's the. It was such a deep reason, but I had to do that layer system. I had to go why, why, why, why, and get really like real with it. And then I had my purpose. I had a few reasons why, a big reason why and I had that purpose and you know what, I wrote that book in two weeks, two weeks, I mean.

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It was obviously based around um inversion thinking, which is not originally mine. It explains that in the book where, where I studied that from it dates back all the way to the roman emperor, marcus aurelius, and it probably goes beyond him. But anyway, and it's in the book. And two weeks of graft, late night, but I was like a man on fire. You know what I mean. I was just day and night writing it.

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I didn't want to go to sleep, I wanted to write more chapters, I wanted to refine it, refine it, refine it and add more stories. And maybe, and then when it was about I don't know, two, three hundred pages long, I was like this is too much, I don't want to read. Somebody, a busy man, don't want to read 300 page book. It's difficult. Today you get your point across in in the third of that. How many books do you read where they're like 250, 300 pages? And you finish reading and you're like, really that's a good book, but you could have got your point across in about 60, maybe 70 pages give or take. So so that's why I had to again refining it in that two weeks, getting it down to whatever. It is 100 and just over 100, maybe less 100 pages to getting the point across and having you know, give someone a point. So that's just another example. So sit down and map out what you want to do. It could be for IBS. It could be a promotion at work. It could be you want to do. It could be for IBS. It could be a promotion at work. It could be you want to be a better dad, a better husband, a better fitter. You might like me, in the past, you might have put on some excess body fat and you want to lose that. This is a game changer. This is a complete game changer, and I believe in my heart and mind and wisdom because I've done it and I've put it into practice time and time again.

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This is one of the massive pieces to the puzzle in crushing your goals. This is one of the reasons why people don't succeed in new year's resolutions, in like for next 2025 and beyond. How many resolutions have you seen where people have said, oh, I'm going to do such and such. And then they start off with good intentions. They go to the gym. The gyms are packed in january, and then february they're still a bit busy, a few people have left, and then march, it's like a ghost town. It's just got the normal gym goers in there. For me it's brilliant because I'm like, phew, I can actually get on the kit now. And you know, because I go all the time. And it's because people don't have a purpose. They don't have a big enough reason why, if you put it all the way back, have a reason why. Have a strong purpose and you will crush your goals. You will crush it.

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Obviously, you've then got to find where or who can help you, because you can't do everything yourself. You can read books and you can watch these videos all day long, but they're only going to give you little tiny pieces, aren't they? Little nibbles going forward, depending on what you're after in life. If you want business, for example, you want to grow your business and you want to take that to the next level, maybe it's six figures and you want to get it to seven figures, or multiple seven figures. Chances are you're going to need some coaching a business coach, mentoring are you're going to need some coaching, a business coach mentoring. You're going to go and you're going to need to tap into somebody else's knowledge and wisdom. Happy with that, but obviously by doing that and having the purpose and the reasons why, you're going to be unstoppable. And the other thing is it's going to get you through difficult times.

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That's what I've found. Is when you've got like writing the book in two weeks, when I got going with that, I was all like, yeah, really excited, started typing out yeah, this is brilliant. By day three I was like, oh, this is so difficult, this is so difficult. I know what I want to teach. I've got all the chapters written out. I know, I've mapped it out. What's difficult and it's you know. If you've written a book, you'll know where I'm coming from, because I don't know the same from mark twain, where I would have wrote it shorter but I didn't have time. It's like because it's easy to write loads of fluff and write loads and loads of stuff around something, but to get it right, to get it down to the the most important stuff, to get your point across, that's the tricky part, believe it or not. So they write the books quite easy. You know three, four hundred pages.

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I'll share the dean graziosi one with you. It's about six years old but it's still relevant today. Don't just research it, put it into practice, because that's where the magic is. Knowledge is power. Knowledge is power is the saying. But when we put it into practice and find what works for us and then stick to that and have that experience, then it becomes wisdom, and this is why I'm teaching it. You know, I wouldn't have taught this to you if I'd just read a book on it and never put it into practice. Or I would at least tell you that I have put this into practice. My wife, charlie jean, has put it into practice. It works. And not only does it work, it's super powerful. Hope that helps.

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If the only thing, the only ask I've got of this if like this, if you think somebody else could benefit from it, whether it's if you listen to it on the podcast channel or watching it on the YouTube video channel share it. Pass it on to somebody that could change their life as well. Pay it forward, because I can't help people. If you could help me help them, so to speak. I would help a million men change their lives and get IBS mastery. But it starts.

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There's so much more to this, guys. There is so much more to IBS mastery than just some diet. Having mastery in life is phenomenal. It's a journey. It is a journey that we're always on, isn't it? And whether we've got money, mastery, mastery over our health, wealth, happiness, happiness, the ibs, anything it's a journey. We're never going to get this nearly perfect, what is perfect, but we can get some amazing results and we can get into a pretty good place in life with all the things I've just spoke about. All right, guys. Hope that makes sense, as if it may, if whack a comment. Thanks, glenn. Take care. All the best in wealth, health and happiness. Have an amazing good luck with your goal setting in 2025 and beyond, and I hope it goes well. Get the reasons why, get the purpose, get an amazing purpose and some reasons why, and you'll crush it. Take care.