187: If You Haven’t Achieved Your Goal Yet (And You’re Frustrated), Keep Going

This episode is for those of you who are working toward something and you're frustrated because you're not there yet. I'm sharing what 12 years of showing up taught me, the difference between commitment and discipline, how to find your zone of genius, and why you just have to keep going. CHAPTERS: 0:00 Intro 0:57 The Valley Mindset 2:29 What Consistency Actually Looks Like 6:47 You Just Haven't Done It Long Enough Yet 11:52 How Far Do You Have to See to Keep Going? 15:21 Eating Disorder at 14 18:50 Commitment vs. Discipline 22:27 Why Big Life Transitions Create the Strongest Commitments 27:06 What Is Your Track Record for Finishing Something? 30:36 Imagine Where You'd Be If You Just Stayed 33:17 Zone of Genius 39:35 Keep Going JOIN MY TRAINING APP: https://my.playbookapp.io/nick-bare ORDER MY BOOK HERE: ⁠https://www.amazon.com/Go-One-More-Intentional-Life-Changing/dp/1637746210 Become a BPN member FOR FREE - Unlock 25% off FOR LIFE ⁠ https://www.bareperformancenutrition.com/collections/performance-nutrition FOLLOW: IG: ⁠instagram.com/nickbarefitness/⁠ YT: ⁠youtube.com/@nickbarefitness This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be considered legal [health or profession] advice. Bare Performance Nutrition (BPN) is not responsible for any losses, damages, or liabilities that may arise from the use of this podcast. This podcast is not intended to replace professional medical advice. This podcast may not be republished without the written consent of Bare Performance Nutrition (BPN) MB01CJGDSCCQHMO

Speaker names marked ? are inferred from speaking time and the show’s known hosts — they are not voice-verified.

• 0:00Nick Bare?

  Before we dive into today's episode, I want to share some news with you guys. And if you are unaware, or you don't know, we sell BPN products on Amazon. We actually do a lot of business on Amazon. It's a large part of our e-comm business alongside our website at bpnsubs.com. But we just launched a new product on Amazon exclusively. And that is a 100-serving Creapure Creatine Monohydrate. Now, on our website, you can get 30 in 60 servings of Creapure Creatine Monohydrate. But on Amazon, you can also get 100 servings.

• 0:45Nick Bare?

  And 100 servings is the most cost efficient and effective. So if you're looking to buy BPN products, for one, you can go to bpnsubs.com, our website. But you can also go to our Amazon storefront and support BPN, support me, and purchase all of our products. And another reminder, if you didn't know, all of our products, all of our supplements are enrolled in the NSF Certified for Sport Testing Program. So every product that we create goes through this program. If you are an NCAA athlete, professional athlete, military, law enforcement,

• 1:26Nick Bare?

  subject to frequent drug testing, you can have the confidence knowing that all of our products are tested by NSF Certified for Sport. So, thank you, guys. I appreciate you. Now, let's get into the episode.

• 1:46Nick Bare?

  All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of the podcast. Today's title or topic of discussion is if you haven't achieved your goal yet, something you're working towards, and you are frustrated, this episode is for you to keep going, to keep pushing, to keep driving. I was just spending time with one of our team members, Simon Diaz. And we were talking about people who find themselves in a valley of life, a low point.

• 2:29Nick Bare?

  And some of the most dangerous people are people who, and I say dangerous in a good way, but could be bad, I guess. People who find themselves in a low point of valley. And when they are there, they crawl, they climb themselves back out of that valley, that hole. When they are at the lowest of their low, they go into this dog mindset and they climb out.

• 3:07Nick Bare?

  The flip side of that is someone who finds himself in a valley in a low point of their life. And they set up camp. They stay there. They feel bad for themselves. They make themselves the victim. And they stay in that low point and that let life just rain down on them. And let that valley fill with water from all of the rain and they just soak and submerge in that puddle. People who, when they're at their lowest, climb back out, they crawl themselves. They claw themselves back out.

• 3:48Nick Bare?

  Man, there's dangerous dudes, some dangerous girls that are, achieve absolute greatness in their life. They're going to achieve and accomplish whatever they want because they have the resiliency, the adaptability, the grit to climb out. The reason I'm leaning into this topic is because I had this realization the other day after one of my runs. And I run six days a week right now, Monday through Friday.

• 4:31Nick Bare?

  It's six easy miles every morning. Saturday is my long run, eight plus miles. And I'm doing two high rock sessions per week and I'm logging some miles at higher intensity intervals during these workouts. And this one particular morning, I was filming a YouTube video. And I have been filming YouTube videos since 2014. And I started BPN in 2012. And I told my dad, I've told this story a million times, but I told my dad we were going to make a million dollars that first year. And we didn't. He said, Nick, if it was that easy, everyone would do it.

• 5:15Nick Bare?

  We did $20,000 in revenue year one. We did $20,000 in revenue year two. We did $20,000 in revenue year three. And then I decided I gotta change something because this ain't working. And I didn't want my dad to be right. Nick, if it was easy, everyone would do it. So in 2014, I spent the last $500 on a name on a camera. And I started documenting my life on YouTube, filming everything. I filmed my workouts, I filmed my diet, what I was eating, the behind the scenes of building a business, what it was like being an infantry platoon leader in the army.

• 5:57Nick Bare?

  And from that moment, up until today, present day, I have been consistently filming, documenting, publishing, sharing my life on YouTube. So this one particular day last week, I knew I was filming a YouTube video like I've been doing for the last, you know, 12 years. And on days where I film YouTube videos, I wake up extra early to get the shots that I need, to get all of the camera gear prepped.

• 6:39Nick Bare?

  Now, if I'm filming a morning run and the preparation for that run and it is setting up the camera and getting the white balance set properly and the exposure set properly. And I'm setting up the tripod in certain locations to get certain angles and shots. And I'm locking in manual focus and, you know, if you're watching these YouTube videos or you watch these videos over the year, it might seem like these cameras just live in my house and they live in my garage and the shots just get themselves.

• 7:15Nick Bare?

  But it requires a lot of planning and preparation and time to set up these scenes and these shots to capture it. So what might be a normal, normal five-minute routine in the morning ends up being 20 minutes because of setting everything up and capturing it to then share it with you guys online. And I've been doing this for 12 years now. So it's a second nature.

• 7:51Nick Bare?

  It is a habit. It's something that I've just been doing for so long. I don't think much of it. But this one particular morning last week, after I finished my run and I filmed all of these scenes. Now, I ran for 45 minutes, but the whole process of capturing and documenting and sharing and talking was about two hours from the time I picked up the camera to the time I finished the run and said the last thing I wanted to say. And this was all done by 6:15 a.m.

• 8:33Nick Bare?

  And like I said, I've been doing this for 12 years now. And for a long time, when I first got started, I saw no growth. Saw very little momentum. It didn't impact the business overnight. These platforms and the exposure and the audience and the community wasn't built in a matter of days, weeks, months. It was years. And now it is 12 years later that I've been doing this.

• 9:09Nick Bare?

  Day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, over a decade now. And I share that to say that if you are working towards a goal, if you're on mission, if there's something you want to accomplish and succeed in, and you haven't gotten there yet and you are frustrated, you're mad, you're angry, you're disappointed, stop and don't be. Because the truth is, the reality, you may not have been doing it long enough yet.

• 9:49Nick Bare?

  It's not that you won't get there, you won't succeed, you won't win, you won't accomplish. It's just that you haven't yet. You have to keep going. Yeah, but I've been working on this thing for a few months. I've been working on this thing for over a year.

• 10:14Nick Bare?

  Maybe it's just not your time yet. Keep going.

• 10:20Nick Bare?

  It might take two years. It may take five years. It might take 10 years. It might take one decade. Are you willing to keep going, to keep working, to keep building, to keep showing up every single day for over 10 years? And if not, you might not care about it that much. It might not be for you.

• 10:46Nick Bare?

  But if you keep going, your time will come. So maybe you haven't accomplished what you want to. But it doesn't mean you're not going to. You just haven't yet.

• 11:04Nick Bare?

  That is go one more. Go one more is a mindset. So many people think go one more is an action.

• 11:12Nick Bare?

  People think that go one more is one more rep. It's this

• 11:19Nick Bare?

  this concept that you apply in the gym. I'm tired. I want to go another minute on this run. I want to pump out one more rep. I want to do one more set, one more exercise. That's part of it. But that's a small part of it.

• 11:44Nick Bare?

  Someone sent me a DM on Instagram the other day.

• 11:50Nick Bare?

  And they said go one more has saved their life, literally.

• 11:56Nick Bare?

  They sent me a voice message.

• 11:59Nick Bare?

  And they said that for a long time, they were considering taking their life.

• 12:07Nick Bare?

  Ending it.

• 12:10Nick Bare?

  They didn't think they were worthy, valuable.

• 12:16Nick Bare?

  And every day they woke up and thought about the idea of taking their life. They told themselves, go one more, just one more day.

• 12:28Nick Bare?

  Just, just stay alive for one more day. And rethink this heavy decision tomorrow.

• 12:41Nick Bare?

  And this individual said they went one more day, and then one more day, and one more day, and one more day.

• 12:49Nick Bare?

  Until eventually they got help and I got better. And they clawed themselves out of that low point, out of that valley. Like I said in the beginning, so many people find themselves in this valley, in this low point. And it doesn't look like there's an option to, to escape, to get out.

• 13:16Nick Bare?

  But the only way to do so is to climb and claw and crawl back out. One step at a time.

• 13:31Nick Bare?

  Go one more.

• 13:38Nick Bare?

  The question is, how far do you have to be able to see into the future to keep going?

• 13:45Nick Bare?

  This is where a lot of people become disappointed.

• 13:51Nick Bare?

  When I start something, I want to know, what does the finish line look like? Where is it? When will I get there? That brings us a lot of, of comfort. You know, when I start a fitness prep, I'm entering this prep. When does it end? When is the finish line? Where is the finish line?

• 14:16Nick Bare?

  What does that look like? Okay, I know how hard, how far, how uncomfortable this is going to be

• 14:28Nick Bare?

  for an extended period of time. But what if you don't know when it's going to end? What if you don't know when you're going to achieve or accomplish?

• 14:37Nick Bare?

  That scares a lot of people.

• 14:40Nick Bare?

  How far do you have to see into the future to keep going? The answer is just enough.

• 14:48Nick Bare?

  I was listening to a Tim Ferriss podcast a few weeks ago. And what I'm about to share was all around the context of writing a book. The guest was an author and she was talking about the painful process of book writing.

• 15:09Nick Bare?

  And she used an analogy. And she said that writing a book is like driving at night with the headlights on. You can only see a little bit in front of you. But the truth is, you can make the entire journey that way.

• 15:30Nick Bare?

  That's life. We're not always going to see the finish line. We're not always going to know when we're going to accomplish the thing. If we're going to accomplish the thing that we want to. But all we gotta be able to see is enough. When you're driving at night and you have your headlights on. All you can see is 100 feet in front of you. But if you keep following that light. And you focus on what's in front of you right now, in that moment. And you stay on the path, you stay on course, you stay on mission.

• 16:14Nick Bare?

  You will eventually get to where you want to be.

• 16:18Nick Bare?

  If I get my, my truck at night, tonight in central Texas. And I put into my maps, Palmyra, Pennsylvania, where I grew up. And I start driving.

• 16:32Nick Bare?

  And my maps are taking me from Texas to Pennsylvania. When I'm in Texas, I can't see Tennessee.

• 16:41Nick Bare?

  I can't see Virginia. I can't see Pennsylvania. I can see what's right in front of me. But if I keep following that light and I'm on course, I'm following the directions. I will eventually get there.

• 16:57Nick Bare?

  How far do you have to see into the future to keep going? Just enough.

• 17:06Nick Bare?

  I shared this story on, on Instagram this past week.

• 17:15Nick Bare?

  But when I was 14 years old, I had a severe eating disorder. I mean, it got pretty out of hand.

• 17:24Nick Bare?

  And everyone asks the question all the time, what do you think sparked it? Why? To this day, I don't know.

• 17:32Nick Bare?

  If I had to take a guess and make a hypothesis, it's that I wanted some sort of control in my life. At 14 years old, and for me at that time. The ability to control food and consumption and my weight, my body composition

• 17:52Nick Bare?

  was something that I gravitated towards.

• 17:56Nick Bare?

  And it started with me just reducing my food intake a little bit and exercising a little bit more. And it got pretty out of hand pretty fast.

• 18:06Nick Bare?

  To the point where my parents recognized that I was getting thin and weak and frail. And I didn't have much energy or much appetite. So they started taking me to doctor's appointments for over a year. I was getting pulled out of school, taken to and from the hospital to do routine checks and doctor's appointments. They were trying to figure out what was going on. At one point, they thought I had a tapeworm from a recent family vacation to Mexico. At another point, they thought I had celiac's disease and they put me on a gluten free diet. I knew the entire time what was going on. I was starving myself. I was choosing not to eat, not to consume food.

• 18:49Nick Bare?

  And after going through these

• 18:53Nick Bare?

  motions and doctor's appointments for over a year.

• 18:57Nick Bare?

  One day, my parents took me out of school. And we drove to the Hershey Medical Center for another routine appointment. But this day we pulled into the eating disorder clinic.

• 19:10Nick Bare?

  And I knew as soon as we pulled into this, this clinic and I saw the sign, eating disorder clinic out front.

• 19:21Nick Bare?

  I knew in that moment I was caught. And my parents confronted me, the doctors confronted me, and I made a commitment right there and then to them. I was going to get better. I, I promised them. I was going to focus on getting healthier and stronger and better.

• 19:43Nick Bare?

  So I left that doctor's appointment. And I came home knowing that I had to start eating more food again. And I opened up the pantry. And I pulled out a box of Pop-Tarts. And I'll never forget this.

• 19:58Nick Bare?

  And I flipped over that box of Pop-Tarts and I read the nutrition facts panel. And I realized that

• 20:06Nick Bare?

  there were almost 400 calories in two Pop-Tart pastries. And at that point in my life, that was probably more calories than I was consuming in a day. And I was mind blown. And I forced myself to eat those two Pop-Tarts, which was to this day, one of the hardest things I've ever had to do. And that's such a crazy statement for me to say.

• 20:29Nick Bare?

  But I made a commitment. I was going to get better. I was going to become healthier and stronger.

• 20:40Nick Bare?

  And if I'm being honest, nothing changed overnight.

• 20:45Nick Bare?

  And it was a long road to recovery of rebuilding healthy relationships with food.

• 20:54Nick Bare?

  But eventually, after months and years, I got better. And if I'm being honest, I still, to this day, still struggle with healthy relationships with food from time to time. It doesn't control me like it did when I was 14 years old, but it's one of those things that will always be part of my life.

• 21:18Nick Bare?

  And when I made that commitment to get healthier, to be stronger, to view food as fuel,

• 21:29Nick Bare?

  and not to punish myself for consuming food, that commitment was something that I had to wake up every morning and recommit to. And I didn't know how long it was going to take it to get better. I didn't know what the journey was going to look like, but I was on mission.

• 21:48Nick Bare?

  And I just had to take one day at a time. I had to go one more. I had to keep going.

• 22:02Nick Bare?

  There were so many moments, opportunities where I could have quit and given up and went back to my old ways, which were more comfortable for me. But I made the commitment and I showed up every day to recommit and I just kept going, knowing that eventually, having confidence, knowing that eventually I was going to rebuild healthy relationships with food.

• 22:32Nick Bare?

  And that led me to finding the gym and falling in love with fitness and bodybuilding and strength training and working out and building my body back up as opposed to breaking it down and viewing food as fuel and nutrition and nourishment as opposed to something that was bad or negative for me. And that then became my life's work and mission and eventually led me to starting BPN and studying nutrition in college and pursuing these competitions and

• 23:15Nick Bare?

  races and training and documenting. That whole experience ended up being a blessing in disguise and it transformed and changed my life. And I had no clue what that journey was going to look like. When I got back from that doctor's appointment when I was 14 years old and forced myself to eat two Pop Tarts, but I just kept showing up. I kept going day after day. And it's turned my life into something absolutely amazing and great from what was once me sitting

• 23:54Nick Bare?

  in the bottom of a valley soaking wet, not knowing how to crawl out. But I did. It was a decision. It was a commitment.

• 24:12Nick Bare?

  You know, there's a difference between discipline and a commitment.

• 24:22Nick Bare?

  And I don't want to overcomplicate these two things, but I think just the perspective

• 24:29Nick Bare?

  might be beneficial for people just to think about and implement into their life, a reframing of the way we show up for our commitments and build disciplines within our daily life. Now, a commitment is the why. It's the inner decision behind your goal. It removes an internal debate or battle. It's the initial reason of why you got started.

• 25:06Nick Bare?

  The commitment I made when I was 14 years old, when I got home from that doctor's appointment and forced myself to eat those two Pop Tarts, I was committed to getting healthier, to becoming stronger, to building healthy relationships with food again. That was the commitment. That was the reason I got started. It was an inner decision with a goal.

• 25:35Nick Bare?

  The discipline is the how. It's the systems, the routines, and the rules that we use to execute the work, even when we feel uninspired. Discipline keeps you moving onward on days when the motivation begins to fade. Discipline is the day-to-day, hand-to-hand combat that you need that builds upon that commitment. The commitment was to get healthier. In my case, the commitment was to get stronger, to build healthy relationships with food again. The disciplines that I had to put into my life were around how I was going to eat, what I was

• 26:19Nick Bare?

  going to eat, when I was going to eat, how much I was going to eat, going to the gym, training, building my body back up, surrounding myself with people, a support system, an environment that helped me get towards my goal and honor my commitment.

• 26:46Nick Bare?

  This is the reason that people oftentimes make huge lifestyle changes. Once they have a life transition, they have kids, they get married, they start a family. In terms of fitness, it's the why to be healthier. It's rooted in something much larger than themselves.

• 27:05Nick Bare?

  The commitment has a connection and the daily disciplines keep them showing up, the habits, the systems, and the routines they build. I've met a lot of people who didn't care about their health, didn't care about their fitness. They just went through the motions of life,

• 27:26Nick Bare?

  graduated college, got a job, sat in an office. As soon as they got off of work for the day, they went to grab dinner with some friends, had a few drinks, came home, watched Netflix, went to bed. Same thing day in, day out. Eventually, they decided to start a family, they get married, they have kids, and they realize, well, this lifestyle that I'm living doesn't really produce the results that I want for this next chapter of life. The why

• 28:03Nick Bare?

  is stronger. The commitment is more purposeful. It's to be healthier for their family, to be a leader, to be a support, to be a foundation. And then the disciplines they build reinforce and support the goals they have because of that commitment. It's a way to reframe. Disciplines on their own can be beneficial, but they're a lot weaker and easier to break without a commitment, a strong, connected commitment.

• 28:51Nick Bare?

  You know, a lot of people have commitment problems. My question is, what is your track record for finishing something? In that same Tim Ferriss podcast that I referenced earlier,

• 29:11Nick Bare?

  there was one of Tim's podcasts where he'll have a topic and then he'll pull sections of podcasts he's done from over the years that are applicable to that topic. So another guest that he pulled in, in segment of a previous podcast for this one, her name is Elizabeth Gilbert. And she said, so sometimes people will say to me, I'm working on a book and I'm halfway through it, but I've got this other idea that I think is way better. And this book that I'm currently working on feels stale and it doesn't have any life in it. And

• 29:53Nick Bare?

  I always say, okay, well, I give you permission to quit working on that first project, but only if you have a proven track record of ever being able to finish a thing. What is your track record for finishing something?

• 30:17Nick Bare?

  A lot of times, we see this

• 30:22Nick Bare?

  golden, shiny, flashy opportunity. We start pursuing that opportunity.

• 30:29Nick Bare?

  And then the honeymoon phase of that opportunity or project fades a little bit. And then a new flashy, golden, shiny opportunity is presented to us. So we abandon the first opportunity and project or mission, and we start pursuing the second. And the same thing happens with the second, and we start pursuing a third.

• 30:54Nick Bare?

  And the same thing happens with the third. We start pursuing a fourth. And this becomes habitual or routine.

• 31:03Nick Bare?

  Or we start something and we stop. And we start something and we stop.

• 31:08Nick Bare?

  You don't have permission to quit and pivot

• 31:14Nick Bare?

  or change your idea and start something new unless you have a proven track record of finishing something. Like for me personally, there have been new projects or missions that I have started. And I quickly realize

• 31:33Nick Bare?

  once I start it, I don't think this is going to produce the results that I wanted.

• 31:40Nick Bare?

  Or I don't feel like pursuing this any longer. And sometimes I abandon that goal or that mission or that project, and I pivot to something different.

• 31:52Nick Bare?

  But in my honest opinion and assessment, I can do that because I have a proven track record of finishing things, of achieving and accomplishing. But if you are someone who starts and stops and restarts and stops and pivots and restarts and stops, and you've never finished a significant amount of things, you don't have permission to quit. You have to prove yourself. You have to stack wins, stack proven success to show that you can finish something.

• 32:31Nick Bare?

  Imagine where you would be

• 32:34Nick Bare?

  if you didn't have to keep restarting over and over again. And instead, you stayed committed. Ask yourself that question. Imagine.

• 32:46Nick Bare?

  One of the things I've seen over the last couple of years, that's a popular caption to post on a photo or a video, is we're so back.

• 32:58Nick Bare?

  We're so back.

• 33:01Nick Bare?

  And it's oftentimes, you know, someone starts training and eating healthier, and then they fall off. And they start training again and eating healthier. And they post a photo of themselves running or in the gym, and the caption is, we're so back. Well, where'd you go? Why'd you stop?

• 33:22Nick Bare?

  I get it. Things happen in life. And sometimes you gotta take a break. You gotta take a tactical pause to handle your business, to show up for your responsibilities.

• 33:34Nick Bare?

  But in other times, that's just an excuse.

• 33:38Nick Bare?

  You just quit because you gave up. You didn't honor your commitments. You weren't disciplined enough.

• 33:46Nick Bare?

  Imagine where you would be if you didn't have to keep restarting over and over again. And instead, you stayed committed to that thing.

• 33:58Nick Bare?

  That's why if you haven't achieved your goal yet and you are frustrated,

• 34:05Nick Bare?

  there's multiple reasons you might be frustrated. One of those reasons

• 34:09Nick Bare?

  is that you just haven't been doing it long enough yet.

• 34:13Nick Bare?

  And you're still in pursuit of that achievement.

• 34:19Nick Bare?

  Another reason is that you are shooting yourself in the foot. You're not giving yourself a chance because you don't stay committed long enough to one thing. You start and stop and pivot and start and stop and pivot and start and stop and pivot and start and stop.

• 34:40Nick Bare?

  Stop doing that. Keep going on that one thing until you have a proven track record of accomplishing.

• 34:52Nick Bare?

  One of the ways you set yourself up for success

• 34:57Nick Bare?

  with the greatest chances of achieving

• 35:02Nick Bare?

  is by operating out of your appropriate zone.

• 35:09Nick Bare?

  So there's this book I highly recommend.

• 35:13Nick Bare?

  I read it for my first time a few years ago. It was recommended to me by a friend, Jimmy DeSico. And it's called The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership. It's by Jim DeFmer, Deanna Chapman, and Kaylee Warner-Klemp. I've read this every year for the last couple of years. And every time I reread it, it's a great reminder.

• 35:39Nick Bare?

  And The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership is built off this foundational principle of leading from above the line.

• 35:52Nick Bare?

  So if we draw a line, you're either above the line or below the line in terms of leadership. The book states that at any point, a leader is either above the line or below the line. If you are above it, you are leading consciously. And if you are below it, you are not.

• 36:14Nick Bare?

  When leaders are below the line, they are closed and defensive. And when they are above the line, they are open and curious. Further, we reveal that when leaders are below the line, their primary commitment is to being right. And when they are above the line, their primary commitment is to learning.

• 36:31Nick Bare?

  The first mark of conscious leaders is self-awareness and the ability to tell themselves the truth. Distortion and denial are cornerstone traits of unconscious leaders. So why is it important to be above the line? Because when we operate above the line, we experience creativity, innovation, and collaboration.

• 36:56Nick Bare?

  So why is this applicable?

• 37:00Nick Bare?

  If you haven't achieved your goal yet and you are frustrated,

• 37:05Nick Bare?

  and I tell you to keep going.

• 37:08Nick Bare?

  And people say, stay on path. Stay on mission. Stay focused.

• 37:16Nick Bare?

  You have to make sure you are operating out of the appropriate zone to succeed.

• 37:26Nick Bare?

  So commitment number eight

• 37:29Nick Bare?

  is called excelling in your zone of genius. And in this book, there's 15 commitments.

• 37:36Nick Bare?

  And excelling in your zone of genius states that I commit to expressing my full magnificence and to supporting and inspiring others to fully express their creativity and live in their zone of genius. There's four zones. Think about this. In terms of your work,

• 37:56Nick Bare?

  that is propelling you towards your goals of achievement, what zone are you operating out of right now? Zone one is incompetent. Here, you spend time doing things that you don't enjoy and don't do well. This is the worst zone to be in.

• 38:18Nick Bare?

  The zone of competent is where you spend time doing things you can do just fine, but others can do them just as well and usually with more efficiency, improved quality, and more enjoyment.

• 38:33Nick Bare?

  The next zone, this is the trickiest zone. This is excellent. This is where the majority of successful people get stuck.

• 38:44Nick Bare?

  Here, you are good at what you do, better than most. You often receive accolades, prestige, and a good paycheck. But it's comfortable. It's known. The problem is that it costs you energy. The passion dies along with your creativity and potential if you stay there too long.

• 39:08Nick Bare?

  Too many people stay in a zone of excellence.

• 39:13Nick Bare?

  The zone you want to stay in and reach is the zone of genius. This is the ultimate zone. Here, you spend time doing what you love, what you're uniquely gifted to do. And all sense of time disappears when you are working here. The goal is to find your zone of genius. When you're operating out of your zone of genius, it's what you love to do and what you're uniquely gifted to do. This is where you can excel.

• 39:46Nick Bare?

  It almost makes working towards your goals and achievement like running downhill.

• 39:53Nick Bare?

  Genius equals juice, as the book goes on to say. The more we live and work in our genius, the more the juice of life is flowing through us into the world. As many have said, it is not our failure that we are most afraid of, but rather our magnificence. Conscious leaders face the fear of stepping fully into their magnificence. They embrace their magnificence, live and work in their genius, and gift,

• 40:20Nick Bare?

  give their gift to the world.

• 40:25Nick Bare?

  So how do we set ourselves up for success with the greatest chances of achieving?

• 40:32Nick Bare?

  One of the ways is to identify our zone of genius and find out how do we get here? How do we operate in this ultimate zone where we spend time doing what we love and what we're uniquely gifted to do? We definitely don't want to be in a zone of incompetent or competent. And like the book states, where most people find themselves is the zone of excellence.

• 41:01Nick Bare?

  But when you can identify and unlock your zone of genius,

• 41:06Nick Bare?

  it makes working towards our goals and achieving

• 41:12Nick Bare?

  easier, more enjoyable, more fulfilling.

• 41:20Nick Bare?

  So if you haven't achieved your goal yet and you've been working at it for a long period of time,

• 41:30Nick Bare?

  it might not have been long enough yet.

• 41:34Nick Bare?

  And my advice to you is to keep going. Apply the go one more mindset.

• 41:42Nick Bare?

  It might take a year, five years, 10 years.

• 41:49Nick Bare?

  But I look back now

• 41:52Nick Bare?

  after having started BPN 14 years ago.

• 41:57Nick Bare?

  And if it feels like a few years, it doesn't feel like a decade and a half. It feels like a few years.

• 42:06Nick Bare?

  Now, I can confidently say I've been operating out of my zone of genius for many of those years. Not all of the years. I have found myself operating out of a a zone of excellence for many of those years. And at some periods of time, a zone of incompetent and competent.

• 42:30Nick Bare?

  But what I'm proud of is that I have a track record of finishing things,

• 42:38Nick Bare?

  honoring my commitments and showing up for them day in and day out.

• 42:45Nick Bare?

  So keep going.

• 42:47Nick Bare?

  And as always, go one more.