Old Guys Still ROCK

Blair Armstrong (01:13)
All right, right, all right. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you may be when you are watching this or listening to this. If this is your first time here, you have just found old guys still rock or becoming more more known for OGSR. I am Blair Armstrong of Team Armstrong, Coldwell Banker, located in beautiful, beautiful Coachella Valley.

which is basically Palm Desert, Palm Springs. I'm a global luxury specialist in the world of residential real estate. And then on my left, possibly your right, depending on how this edit comes out. My good friend and the other half of this show, the other host of the show, Wright of Brent Wright Incorporated, a man with many different hats, just in case you haven't seen this before. Business owner of many multitudes, as I just said, from body shops to detail shops to him and his wife.

Now he'll tell you this, he's not the owner, but he is an investor of Wright Wellness Center. ⁓ One thing that we haven't mentioned for the last couple of weeks, him and a couple other venture capitalists that he has come together with have a company called Busted Tees and bustedtees.com. So if you haven't been there yet, go ahead as soon as you're done watching this episode, write that down right now, bustedtees.com, go over there and check them out.

Brent Wright (02:15)
Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Blair Armstrong (02:38)
great novelty t-shirt company that they just took over probably about six months ago, maybe a little bit less than that and hats too. So go check that out. again, payroll companies, multiple property owner, landlord. He's not a slumlord, he is a landlord. He takes properties that people beat up and then fixes them nice so you have a place to live in. So again, if this is your first time here.

Brent Wright (02:44)
Yep. Hats too.

Blair Armstrong (03:04)
You're fun. Old guys still rock. are actually episode number one, two, three. That's 123. And I promise you, I promise you, there are not that many people that have a podcast that get to say that. Somebody was asking me the other day, you know, how's it going? I said, we have 122 episodes. I think we're pretty doing pretty damn good. Do we have the following of a lot of others? No, we don't have advertisers and we don't have sponsors. So we get to say what you guys are saying and not being tied down.

Brent Wright (03:10)
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Blair Armstrong (03:34)
And another thing, have a lot to say today, our big follower, we love her to death, because she's actually one of the only people that really comment on the show, and we love her to death. She said we took a little too long to get into the subject last week. We were 14 minutes in before we started the subject. So I got your comment. I hear you. But sometimes we're old guys. We have to talk about the weather. We've got to find out what's going on.

Brent Wright (03:48)
That was Andrea.

hahahaha

That's right.

Blair Armstrong (04:02)
This is everyday life. And you get this great golden nuggets for free and you don't have to pay for it. So I understand we took a long time, Andrea, last time a week ago, but have you shared the show with five people this week? That's what I wanna know. And if you...

Brent Wright (04:15)
That's right, that's right. So one

other thing that you usually mention that you didn't mention is ⁓ coaching.

Blair Armstrong (04:21)
Okay.

Coaching, you're right. And let me talk about this. Yeah. So you, Brett is, yeah. And that's kind of how we started this. So you guys like, how did you guys start this, this podcast? I'm kind of taking the mic today. So let me, let me be your hype man for a little bit. Brett and I, I, I, especially we're going through 75 hard, and we do take walks or kind of the evening walk or second workout of the day.

Brent Wright (04:24)
So I do business coaching.

Blair Armstrong (04:45)
If you don't know what 75 heart is, look it up. Everybody should know what 75 heart is by now. But anyway, we would talk for literally 45, 50 minutes. First of all, for guys to do that is damn near impossible. But we would just talk about kind of what's going on with everyday life, business, personal relationships, hurdles that we're having, wins we're having, and how we got to that. after a good, gosh darn,

60, 90 days of doing that. It was actually longer than that really, but we'll just call it 60, 90 days. We were realizing we weren't sharing the information that we were going through and how crucial that it was because we weren't hearing that on our podcast. At that time, we were invested in a lot of different coaching calls. Not saying that there weren't good stuff, but there was an avenue that was being missed. So we started this podcast.

And here we are. Now with that being said is, Brett, in the meantime, before this even happened, was a great, great business coach. As I said, if you heard me when we talked about this right, right before him, all the different businesses he has. Now this has been a culmination of 30 plus years that he's putting those together. So it's not something he's like, I'm going to start this, this, this, and this, and this. Started one, got it up and running, went fishing, got the right people in place to keep it running so he can kind of oversee it and put his two cents in worth.

Brent Wright (05:39)
you

Blair Armstrong (06:08)
two cents worth into it. So in that part, and along with that came a journey of a transformation of a person who is super, super secluded, kept to himself, didn't care about it. I'm not gonna say this, they came out the right way. Really only cared about brand. And along come, not only did all these businesses is he had to help coach these employees to help them get better.

Then comes along his beautiful wife, April, and opens up Pandora's box. And as we talked about last week, which actually, you know, I watched it, it's still hard for me to watch because it's just been so awesome. The transformation that Brent has had, he's used that, he's written it down, journal it. Now he's going out and taking what God has given him and helping other people. Again, not only in business, but also in personal life. So if you're stuck,

Brent Wright (06:41)
Hahaha.

Blair Armstrong (07:02)
and you just can't figure it out. You've got all the pieces, the puzzle laying out and there's two or three pieces that you just can't find. Just look out, just go watch 122 other episodes as we have on here. See if he's a fit for you. But I have a feeling that he could help you out a lot. He's helped me out a lot. There's some Brent-isms in Blair that's helped him come a long way. I'm still work in progress, but that's why we did that. So that was a lot.

Brent Wright (07:17)
Mm.

I got,

thank you very much for that. I do have one thing to share. So the wellness center and my coaching, we added Brain Tap. If you guys want to know about this, I'd be happy to share it with you. This has been a very transformational thing for me over the last week or so. We got it at the Hyperbaric Conference and we're adding it into the repertoire for the wellness center and also for my coaching clients. What an amazing thing that

It's opened up my eyes to a whole nother avenue.

I don't wanna go into it, cause it's very, very lengthy and very, very beneficial. Couple of things right out of the gate that I will tell you, dropped my heart rate down from 95 to 62.

Blair Armstrong (08:07)
my goodness gracious.

Brent Wright (08:09)
My focus, my energy, my ability to communicate more fluidly has definitely been some of the side effects, if you will, in a good way, of the Brain Tap. Again, love to go into it with anybody who wants to chat about it. Huge, huge, huge benefit. I can send these all over the world. I can help you. I can add it to my coaching.

I can do a single session with you and then you send it back. 30 day money back guarantee, all the things if you don't use it. It's not one of those things that I want people like a hot tub, right? You use it for the first month and then it just sits out there costing you $8 a day in electricity. That's not the goal here. I want people to use this. This is like a fitness program for your brain.

Blair Armstrong (08:50)
Mm-hmm.

I love this man. probably gonna have to make that investment so we can talk about it, right? Yeah, yeah, keep going. Yeah, that's all right. I need some sound effects.

Brent Wright (09:05)
Yep, yep, perfect. ⁓ Andy, Andy, let's get into this.

Andrea, she wants us to get into it quicker so far. We've been in it another 10 or 15 minutes here.

Blair Armstrong (09:20)
We're all right. Yeah, we're 12 minutes in. So sorry, but we also talked beforehand. So here we go. So brother, going through some stuff, doing my morning routine, came across this one, a part of my devotional. So sort of subject today is comparison versus competition and how they kind of do two separate things, but how they can tie in. So I'm going to read you this and I'm going to give this to you guys.

Brent Wright (09:22)
Yeah.

Blair Armstrong (09:47)
So fear of comparison can be a crippling burden for pastors, business owners, people in general, wellness center people, whoever. Just fear of comparison can be crippling to anybody. The pressure to measure up to those in larger lives, larger businesses, real estate, whatever that may be, how it ever connects to you, or with seemingly superior skills,

Brent Wright (10:00)
Mm-hmm.

Blair Armstrong (10:13)
can trigger feelings of disgust or envy. If you struggle with this fear, it's important to remember that you have unique gifts. And we've talked about this before. You may look alike or have been the same circles or have same and common threads, but every single person is unique. You have different DNA, you have different thumb prints, you have different eyes. So it just keeps going on. So you're unique. Remember that.

To overcome this fear of comparison, shift your focus to your own life, business, relationships, whatever that may be. Notice when you are comparing yourself to others and note the more you compare, the more you give birth to discontentment and insecurity. So, and I'm gonna save the second part for later. Actually, I'm just gonna read it right now. Cultivate gratitude for what you have accomplished and the unique

path you're on. Instead of feeling threatened by others, celebrate the successes. This is what I have a hard time with. I'm very competitive and I compare myself to it. I struggle at this a lot. Celebrate the successes of those around you. Remember that knowing their achievements doesn't diminish your own worth or potential. Embrace collaboration and learn from those who inspire you by still training, by

while staying true to your own journey. So that last part, hit home. I'm competitive and I'm looking at all these people and I'm comparing myself and they may be on a really good run. I know that there's been certain parts of my life that I have been better. I've won more championships, but they're on a good streak and I start downplaying of what they're doing.

Instead of celebrating our successes, what you and I talked to you about all the time is, I'm like, that mother trucker, da da da. Yeah, he's on a good run and he's acting like he's all big and mighty and he just attended us to do this. What is that doing for not only for me, but for that person? So what say you on that?

Brent Wright (12:27)
Well,

can tell you what it does from an energy and a universal standpoint. You just closed your own door.

Because if you don't support and celebrate others, they will inherently not support and celebrate you. Universal law of reciprocity kicks in right there. If you expect something, you must give something. First, you must give something then.

celebrate if it comes back. You can't just, well, I gave you something, you we did a couple of podcasts ago about, you can't expect others to get it. You can't expect others to give because you, you can't even expect others to acknowledge and appreciate what you've done. You should be doing what you do because you do it, whether the lights are on or not. What you...

do when nobody's looking is where the magic happens. And I teach my son that, like when we go into the bathroom, just because there's 10 people lined up and he picks up the stuff off the floor and throws it in the trash, I want him to understand that whether there's 10 people or no people, you still pick up the trash and throw it away.

On our last trip to Vegas, him humiliating, I say that lightly. I don't know that these people were humiliated because I didn't engage with them. But the look on their face when a nine-year-old is cleaning up the bathroom and wiping down the counter, there's 18 sinks, two trash cans. Trash cans are overflowing. He's stuffing down in the trash cans and cleaning up and wiping the counter off. And these...

grown men are sitting there waiting, waiting for this nine-year-old to finish cleaning. And they're all just kind of they look like they just took the wind out of their sails because they got called out by his actions.

Blair Armstrong (14:17)
It's a standard, right? you have, how are you comparing? So we're going back to comparison versus competition, and we'll stay with that comparison. How are you comparing yourself with a nine-year-old's life that has been brought up in a different type of mindset than most houses and just call it, right? And so do you take that comparison?

Brent Wright (14:34)
an environment of standards over feelings.

Blair Armstrong (14:42)
You take that comparison and go in a cubby hole and like, just suck. can't believe this dude. Or you're like, you know what? Even though the kid's nine years old, 50 years old, 80 years old, two years old.

I need to make some adjustments so I can compare my life to him and not only and then show others the same thing.

But also take that competition, which we've talked about as well, is I'm going to compete with myself to match that comparison. And the only one I'm going to lose against if I fail at that competition is me.

Brent Wright (15:12)
Mm-hmm.

Blair Armstrong (15:21)
So that's going back to where comparison can be.

It could just, it could, could take you out. can't find the word, D something. can't figure it out. So, where it could just go ahead and just, and just freeze you in fear and freeze you in failure. How are you taking that comparison and then making yourself better? How are you making yourself making yourself more competitive, to be better? Those are the types of things.

Brent Wright (15:43)
Well,

are you doing the healthy thing, right? Are you using comparison to fuel your competition, either with that person or yourself? Mostly with yourself is what you should be doing. Did you see my post yesterday about the head of the nail on one side of the board and the body of the person on the other side?

So on one side of the board, there's a nail and there's a hammer and they're trying to pull the nail out. You ever tried to pull a nail out? It's just a pain, right? And then on the other side is a nail bent in the form of a person and the nail head is the head of the person. And it's, and I wrote, you can't force them. You can't force them to get what you're doing.

Blair Armstrong (16:07)
Okay.

Yeah. Yeah.

man,

right?

Brent Wright (16:28)
The visual is just huge because part of my DNA is I wanna lift others up, I wanna help them grow, I wanna help them prosper. Sometimes people aren't ready to do that. And they take this comparison and it's debilitating to them and it's unhealthy. So we live in an Instagram, social media, highlight real world. How many times you ever seen a guy pull up in a Lambo, get on a jet?

and then sit there and do a spiel about his coaching.

Blair Armstrong (17:01)
Yeah. Yeah.

Brent Wright (17:02)
That was very, very prevalent in the last two to 10 years.

know, lifestyles of the poor and shameless instead of lifestyles of the rich and famous, right? And so I make fun of that lifestyles of the rich and famous or the MTV, MTV cribs, right? They all, and the funny part was, is some of the later versions, people are like, yeah, I don't have my life together like that. All my stuff's not lined up in my refrigerator. Just a bloody mess. I'm just a real person.

Blair Armstrong (17:15)
man, Crib's right.

So when we do see a lot of that, we still see this fake coaching, these fake planes. mean, they're real planes, real cars and stuff like that, typically leased or they're used for props, whatever. I think rentals and to get that. I'm good with you showing me that stuff and it helps me paint out my vision board in my head. But the people that are doing that,

Brent Wright (17:38)
Rent rental, yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Blair Armstrong (17:51)
without which there's a couple that are out there right now, not very many, but there's a couple out there that are actually showing you and helping you how to get there without asking for the money.

Brent Wright (18:02)
Yeah.

Blair Armstrong (18:04)
And I feel that this podcast is the same way. We're not asking you for money. We didn't ask you to buy anything. Well, Brent kind of did, but I'm not gonna leave that alone.

Brent Wright (18:15)
no, I'm not gonna ask you to buy it. I'm telling you how much magic it happened for me and if you're interested, I'd be happy to share it with you. Yeah, yeah, yep.

Blair Armstrong (18:17)
I'm kidding.

I know I had to throw that in there ever good. ⁓

but anyway, with that's a, with the point of that being said is, is that here we are is relating to your life. How are you comparing to things that we're talking about today, applying them to your life? Lincoln's life was going into the bathroom and doing something because he's been raised in a standard or raise of expectation.

doesn't matter what other people are doing. This is kind of what the Brent Wrights or the Wright family does. We do this. We set the standard. We set the stage and using that as comparison. So just because you may not have that life now, be competitive with yourself to compare your, yes, compare yourself to others. But instead of like,

Brent Wright (18:54)
Mm-hmm.

Blair Armstrong (19:11)
They suck because this, this and this, I can still, I'm still better than them because I've done this, this and this. Take it from me. It's a lot of, I'm wasting a lot of energy at different things. It's, it's my mindset. It's dark energy. Sometimes that comes out the wrong way. Take that competition and that comparison and apply it to your life to make your, and find ways for yourself to get better. Hey, that guy did this. He had some really good results for this.

How do I do that? I'm gonna go ahead and even though that we're competing in business or in life or in relationships or whatever that may be, I'm gonna sit down, have a chat with them. What was the trigger that took you from that point that you didn't do before to this point that now you're doing it and it's now your standard? And I hope that part makes sense.

Brent Wright (19:59)
Yeah, yeah, I think it does.

Yeah, it's... Once I found that the only person that I need to compete with was myself, it changed the game for me so much. You know, we were kind of raised in this...

I don't want to say a woe is me society, but it feels like that, right? It feels very heavy. What did that person do to deserve it? Why did they get rich and why didn't I? Well, really, are you looking at their actions? I mean, there's very few people that get lucky. The only luck really is hard work. We've talked about that a couple of times and subjects for this podcast.

If it's not done in a healthy way, no different than anything else. Everything must be done in moderation and everything must be done for the right reasons. So if you're gonna be in a competition with your neighbor on your lawn, I know a lot of people that are really into their lawns, right? And you see your neighbor's lawn and you're like, dang, that looks nice. That looks cool.

Blair Armstrong (20:53)
Yeah

Brent Wright (20:59)
I just can't put in that amount of time and effort and hours that it takes for my lawn to look.

but I think I should have that lawn. So you got two choices, pay somebody to do the effort or do the effort yourself, or don't have the lawn that you desire. The unhealthy way to look at it is dang David over there, he's neglecting his family because he's out there mowing his lawn and weeding his lawn and.

cultivating, talking to his lawn, letting his lawn listen to music, whatever it is, right? You heard that how plants grow better when they listen to music and you talk to them, right? And so I'm taking that to a completely facetious level, but it's true. But you've just judged David because he's ignoring his family to take care of his lawn.

Or you could say, man, that David, he does a great job getting his lawn done, his lawn looks perfect and impeccable. Man, his wife, his wife for supporting him in that, man, I bet they have the best marriage.

See how that judgment.

Competer compare.

Blair Armstrong (22:03)
And then, you know, taking it a step further, just to some golden nubbits for you guys to think about along with what Brent's talking about is go have a conversation. What are you doing? I mean, how are you making this stuff? What type of things are you doing to help your lawnmower? What were some of your hurdles to get that way? What things did you have to sacrifice for? What things did you learn in those sacrifices that would help me out? So realistically,

You can go ahead and compete against, now we're gonna have a, we're gonna use this as a visual. We're going to compete on who's gonna have the best lawn, but we're gonna share experiences. We're gonna compare experiences of what we did or we did this a little bit different and we did this a little bit different. This helped us out. And so you're actually helping each other grow. Competing.

Brent Wright (22:56)
⁓

you're saying that maybe David might be able to teach you something and you might be able to grow and then you might be able to grow together because you could teach David something that he doesn't know about and you guys could be better off together. ⁓ wow, wouldn't that be cool?

Blair Armstrong (23:11)
Yes. Exactly.

What's Amazing, right? This is such a different mindset. I just...

I want to go back to, mean, so keep that visual of David and Tom or me, David and me working together, Brett and David working together on the lawn, keep that visual going back. And then what we're just subjected to every single day is we're comparing ourselves to others of, this person does this, I can't believe this. And this person lives this lifestyle. I can't believe this. You're constantly comparing or they might have not have the same life with you, but for whatever reason,

visually They are more successful for you or the relationship looks amazing and your relationship may be in a valley and not on a peak at that time and you're like, What's the point? I just I I want to live that life They seem like they had you know their life. It just seems so great all the time then and my relationship sucks and blah blah blah blah blah and so all you're doing is just

Grading yourself, grading yourself, grading yourself until where not only your life and your mind is just a woe is me, but now you have stopped competing with yourself to get better.

Brent Wright (24:30)
And maybe, just maybe, we've talked about this before, this is a very deep subject for me, and so I don't wanna go too far into it, but maybe, just maybe, that's what triggers you to become self-obsessed, depressed, and it might trigger you to do something harmful to yourself.

either going down a spiraling hole of alcoholism or drugs or pornography or eating or anything that might be debilitating to you. Is your competition in comparison being done in a healthy way and not in a debilitating way that might actually put you in harm's way?

Blair Armstrong (25:07)
That's that's the yeah, that's really dark. Sorry. And we do have those in a couple of episodes back. So again, you're looking for something to do instead of watching Netflix or something like that. We have some really good stuff on here. It's just like watching an episode on your reality show. It's 45 minutes and. Go ahead and I know commercials and you can binge us, but I think, you know, what happened, I think the big thing that.

Brent Wright (25:16)
You

No commercials.

Blair Armstrong (25:32)
I really want all of us to figure out on here and this is good for me too and there's going to be some good stuff for Brent and that's why we share this information.

Compare yourself and that's fine, but don't let it rule your life. Just because you see something, there's a lot other different, and I know that we've said this already in this episode, just because you see something happening, there's other things that are probably a part of that to do that. So look at it, how do they do it? Instead of just comparing it from the topical part, go ahead and peel back that onion.

What did it take for them to get there? What sacrifices they have to make? What adjustments do they have to make? And then use that as a competition, which I still believe competition is a great thing. It helps you become better. It makes you strive for more and do stuff. then in the same sense of that is going back to the long, the the long.

Analysis of a part of it and a little part of the lawn is going back and saying Okay, he's got a really good lawn or he's got a really good business or he's got a really good this whatever that may be And we're comparing we're comparing notes now together and now we're coming together and working and doing some great things together but I'm still competing because I This week I'm gonna win the championship next week. He's gonna win the championship and when we start having all these people win championships

everybody gets better. Is that a kumbaya, rainbow, unicorn type of statement? Absolutely 100%. Is that reality? I think there's some reality into it, but you can't.

Brent Wright (27:17)
Well, you can form your own reality, right? You could make that happen. Just make a choice.

Blair Armstrong (27:20)
Yeah,

but do it. I think there's another thing as to is, then, but.

I don't know how to use the right words, so maybe you can help me with this, Brent, but do it to a spot of that you're doing it not only for yourself, but doing it for others, but you don't have to go ahead and make a big deal of it on social media or talk about what you did. Just go out and do it. Compare yourselves. How are you going to be better? How are you going to compete to get you to that next level?

Brent Wright (27:50)
I got a story for you. I think I've told part of this story before on here, multiple episodes ago, and even pieces of it have impacted my life. a fellow coach of mine, fellow friend who's a coach, was telling the story to a number of us. And he said, so I had this new opportunity to coach somebody.

This guy's very private, very secretive. And he shows up at his place to coach him. And it's this massive estate, like 3000 acre estate. And it's got the long, cool driveway and the big for formidable gate. And it's got a gate shack with a guard in it. And he goes in and he drives in and they he's greeted by the, the greeter at the door. He's like,

This guy's gotta be a billionaire, sure enough. Guy meets him in the study. You gotta be a billionaire. You gotta have a study if you're a billionaire, right? Like Batman, he's gotta have a study. And so he meets him in there and he's like, man, this is not usually the type of client that I coach. Like, what do you need? I mean, you got it all.

The guy says, 67 years old, been successful in everything I've done.

I've never been married. Haven't had a girlfriend in about 15 years. Don't have any kids. I built this. Built all this, all you see. My friends are the gardener, the gate guy, my maid.

And so the guy's like, well, you really don't have any friends then, because you pay all these people. Yeah, I'm friendly with them and stuff, but these are, you know, this is what I have. He goes, well, what do you need coached on? He goes, how to be a human being.

That's the moral of the story right there, kids.

Blair Armstrong (29:47)
you're comparing yourself to somebody who lives in the big house on top of the hill and the castle and the multi-billion

What is his life? What is her life really like, right?

Brent Wright (29:58)
Well, and he's comparing himself to someone who lives in the suburbs and is struggling to pay the bills and wants for their life.

Blair Armstrong (30:02)
Yeah.

I her life, right? It's just a...

We all have, I think, you know, we, it's an easy world to compare and wanting more or looking through rose clothes. It's healthy. It's fine. It's not a bad side to have comparison, but I think the big thing that gets missed is that your life is different from everybody else's life. And that's what the great part of being a human being is. It's different.

Brent Wright (30:18)
And that's healthy.

Blair Armstrong (30:36)
And it's OK as I said this, it's compete, compete, because it'll always make you better. It'll make you strive to be better. Compare. Look at what they're doing. But have conversations with those people. Why? You know, what's what's your struggle in your life? What's your success in your life? There's one thing that you could have differently. What that is. And maybe that comparison. That you start to it, it could be almost.

looking at the mirror, looking in the mirror and around about way as they're looking back at you and looking back at your life. And even though that you think their life is better than yours, they're looking at your life going, God, I wish I had his life.

Brent Wright (31:16)
wish I had the struggles he had.

Blair Armstrong (31:18)
I, I,

and you know.

Brent Wright (31:21)
Cause

that's what you really need to say when you're comparing yourself to anybody else is that you're wishing for all the good things. You're not wishing for a complete package and understanding what the complete package costs you or gives you because it's a double edged sword. it to give you, it's gonna cost you something.

Blair Armstrong (31:23)
Right?

Are you willing to pay that price of comparison and competition?

Brent Wright (31:46)
Well, that's the struggle

that we all have every day.

Blair Armstrong (31:49)
And I would just encourage you this. It's just because again, it's OK to compare yourself. Don't let it don't let it be. Debilitating has the word I've been looking for for this whole episode debilitating. Don't let it be debilitating to you.

Brent Wright (32:02)
Mm-hmm.

And don't let it dilute your true self and dilute your true purpose. Seek out your true purpose, manifest your true purpose, pray about your true purpose.

Blair Armstrong (32:08)
Yeah.

Servant leadership, servant leadership, servant leadership, and that's where you're come into. So compare and compete, compare and compete. They're two of the same things. You can dissect them to make them differently. But B, you are a unique person. Go out and look at what's going on. And if you think that someone needs to make the adjustments, then make the adjustments in yourself.

that you think that need to be made and go out and be the example. So, yeah, all the time. And I love it, man. So it's just, you know, I think we have this world and there seems there's some common threads that we talk about basically, and this seems to kind of fit in one of those. We believe that everyone can be better. We're in a world right now that.

Brent Wright (32:47)
and lead by example.

Exactly. Be the change you seek. We talk about that often.

Blair Armstrong (33:11)
I don't think there's a lot of people out there. I would say there's a lot of people out there that do believe it, but there's a lot of people out there that don't believe that life is going to get any bit better because they're comparing their circumstances to somebody else's that may look rosy or bad or whatever or think they're superior than others because they do this, this, and that. And which is Google, by the so.

one thing that we really didn't touch on and just touch on right there is you could compare your life, which looks to someone, you know, it looks like someone has a better life or you compare your life and I'm so much better than them. And that also could to be debilitating to your world, which, as I kind of said, is I use that in a competition. I look at them and like, I know I'm better than you. And I start talking trash. But it's in my mind, it works for

It motivates me to go ahead and make some adjustments, but it's not healthy. I'll tell you that it's not healthy. These guys, they work their butt off. They got their stuff done. It's not easy to do whatever they did in the world.

Brent Wright (34:18)
Well, you see a

guy, for example, you see somebody that's just freaking ripped, right? What did that cost? You can't just get ripped. There's no shot. There's no magical. mean, yeah, you can start taking, you know, massive doses of testosterone and Tren and all kinds of stuff. of course, you know, you can, you can definitely...

Blair Armstrong (34:22)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Brent Wright (34:42)
take the shortcuts, but the shortcuts still cost you. They still cost you. And so, you know, you and I've done 75 hard, you did the Live Hard program. Neither one of us are ripped. We're fit, but neither one of us are ripped. And we were working out 45 minutes to an hour, hour and a half a day, twice, right? Twice a day. We were eating well. We were drinking a ton of water. We were going for it.

Blair Armstrong (34:55)
Hahaha!

Brent Wright (35:08)
We are given 150%. You did it for a year. You're no more fit than I am fit. And you're no more ripped than I am ripped. But what is it, you gotta look at that guy and you're like, man, what did he sacrifice? That's the question that you need to ask yourself. Man, he looks good. What did he sacrifice to get there? I gotta ask that question.

Blair Armstrong (35:13)
Ha ha ha.

No, nope. ⁓

It's us, you know, we have a ticket to this too, is, know, people get on here, you know, like.

watch this podcast and then we ask them to come down to this, all of sudden it's exit stage left. Like, yeah, I don't like to be in front of camera. You guys make it look so easy. You guys have done this, you know, it's not easy for us. You know, we have to come out here, we have to be transparent, we have to share our emotions and do some different things like that. But we also know that it's super important for us to share our wins and our losses. So if you want to compare your life, you know,

Brent Wright (35:45)
Mm-hmm.

Blair Armstrong (36:03)
If you want to look at that or compare yourself like I couldn't do that, yeah, you can. You could totally do it. It's really easy. And everyone that actually comes on here after two, three minutes, we can't shut them up. So if you, you know, we have people now coaching, coaching teams across the pond. We have people writing books. We have people that, that are constantly finding something that drive themselves more and more and more because they know what they have to offer. ⁓

Brent Wright (36:15)
Yeah, they love it.

Mm-hmm.

Blair Armstrong (36:29)
you know, the list goes on and on and on. So just because you don't, you haven't been able to do it in the past and you see somebody else do it, doesn't mean that you can't do it.

in the future. And I hope that you take this episode and figure out what you're comparing yourself to other people. And you look at yourself in the mirror and saying, yeah, they may have that right now, but how do I, how am I going to make the change to make myself better? So they can compare themselves to me. And that's going to be a conversation you're to have to have with that person. And you're going to have to release those demons that

You are, you're unique person and that's why we have you on this earth. And that's the hell you're gonna help us and for everyone that you come in contact with, you're gonna make them better. So.

Brent Wright (37:19)
When

you said release the demons, went back to that movie, release the Kraken. Exactly.

Blair Armstrong (37:23)
Release the crackin Release the crackin. Yeah, release that crackin from your life, man Go

out there and just make it happen. That is just to do this stuff. Just like We want everybody that watches this we want everybody that we come in contact to be better Something was said to me the other day and I and I'm embracing this more and more and more and I love it I'm a connector That's my purpose. I'm a massive freaking introvert. I'm mentally mentally

Brent Wright (37:47)
Mm-hmm.

Blair Armstrong (37:53)
fried by four o'clock every day because I have to go out and talk to people. I get to go out, excuse me. I get to go out and talk to talk to people. right. Brett calls me at five. I'm like, shut up. but I'm, I bring people together because I forced myself to come out and talk to people and get to know them and try to figure out how I can help them or

Brent Wright (37:59)
And then Brent calls you at five.

Blair Armstrong (38:19)
what they're looking for, so on and so forth. So not only problem solver, but I'm a connector. The funny thing is I connect people and then I kind of like, hey, Bob, meet John, John, meet Bob. Awesome. And the next thing you know it, I am stepping way back and I'm letting these guys build a relationship. So some people call me the mayor, whatever to that, but that's my purpose. I've been bracing this like I love being a connector. I love getting people together and figuring stuff out because they're coming from

two ends of the spectrum usually that probably would never talk to each other because of different beliefs or different mindsets. But since I connected them and we're the common thread, we all start getting along instead of like, don't hang out with that guy because so-and-so, so I've saw a different side to them. You guys are going to get along great. And next thing you know, it is they're going out and doing dinners. may not be invited to those things, but I started a new relationship and that is what

My purpose in life is to start and build relationships and impact their life to a certain extent that their lives get better so they can go out and do the same thing. Amen. Any final words for you, dude?

Brent Wright (39:28)
Amen.

As always, go make a damn difference. If you don't know how to do that, reach out. Happy to show you through the process. And if any of this challenged you, changed you, or affected you in any way, positive or negative, we'd love to chat with you about it.

Blair Armstrong (39:46)
We love you guys. Keep doing your stuff. Keep pushing. Keep accelerating. As know, Brent said is a little bit earlier, be the change you say, be the change you seek. Don't make a damn difference. Stop comparing yourself to others. You're your unique person and we love you for that. Share us your hurdles. Share us. I'm just repeating what Brent said. Share us your hurdles. Share us your successes. This is what we need. We need your uniqueness on the show to go help others and you have it in you.

Brent Wright (39:54)
Mm-hmm.

Blair Armstrong (40:14)
to make that happen. There's no rose colored glasses, there's no unicorns, there's no kumbaya. It seriously need this to happen. So until we see each other next time, stay safe. But most of all, God bless guys. Have a great week.