145. Murder to Millions – How to Succeed in Six Months Through Choosing a Few Key Ingredients in Goal Setting with Nelson Tressler the Author of “The Unlucky Sperm Club”

Nelson Tressler is Dr. Brad Miller’s guest on Episode 145 of The Beyond Adversity Podcast. 

Nelson Tressler’s life was sent into a tailspin when in a fit of rage his grandfather murdered a police officer. This was among many adverse life events which devastated Nelson’s personal, professional, and business life.

He talks to Dr. Brad about hitting the bottom in his life and then choosing to make a series of life-altering decisions that transformed his life and led to success in his personal life with a successful marriage and to achieve profound professional success in the world of Real Estate.

His process of choosing not to be defeated by circumstances and instead become a product of your choices.

He outlined his story in his book “The Unlucky Sperm Club: You are Not a Victim of Your Circumstances but a Product of Your Choices.”

He reveals to Dr. Brad the decisions and the process that he now teaches in his process “6 Months 2 Success.” The 6 Months 2 Success Program instills the belief that most people are only a few key ingredients away from being able to fulfill their goals and live the life of their dreams. The I.G.O.T.S.M.A.R.T.E.R.™ Goal Achievement Program gives goal-setters those missing ingredients – making ALL THE DIFFERENCE. The I.G.O.T.S.M.A.R.T.E.R.™ Program not only allows you to know what you truly want, but it gives you the tools, knowledge, and support to actually achieve your goals.

Furthermore, Nelson has created a mobile phone app “The I Got Smarter” app

 https://igotsmarter.com/ which implements the goal elevation process taught in the “6 Months 2 Success” program https://www.6months2success.com/

This is a fascinating story of one of many who was able to navigate personal adversity and achieve success who now offers his experience and teaching to help others achieve their goals in life. 

It’s all about taking consistent positive action and seek to persistently make progress. Don’t ever give up. Nelson shared this quote with Dr. Brad “Never be ashamed of a scar. It simply means you were stronger than whatever tried to hurt you.”

The Beyond Adversity Podcast is Published weekly by Dr. Brad Miller at DrBradMiller.com for the purpose of helping people navigate adverse life events (death, disease, divorce, depression, debt) and emerge to a life of peace prosperity, and purpose.

Dr. Brad Miller

April 2021

https://www.6months2success.com/

https://igotsmarter.com/

Transcript
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Dr. Brad Miller here on beyond adversity, where

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the podcast is helpful to you to overcome adverse conditions in

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your life. And to come out to a better place a place of peace,

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prosperity, and purpose. And it's my privilege to have folks

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to join me on this podcast who have had their own share of

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overcoming and dealing with navigating adverse conditions in

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their life. And to come out to a better place and then to be able

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to teach you how you could do do likewise such as the case with

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Nelson Tressler, our guest here today he has the process or the

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course, six months to success, calm the numeral six months,

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numeral to success, calm and the app the I got smarter.com app

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and in this process, he is going to share with us the the really

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devastating many ways background that he comes from and his

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family life and personal life to develop a process where he's

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been successful in the business world and other aspects of life,

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and can teach us some things to help you to navigate adverse

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conditions in your life. And are we Welcome to Beyond adversity.

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Now. So Tresor, welcome.

145.Nelson Tressler 00:01:15

Thanks for having me, Brad. I appreciate

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it.

Brad Miller:

Well, it is awesome to have you and just look in

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your background, you've developed several successful

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businesses and a process here that folks can connect up with

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and but it's my observation and reading your story that you

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really come from just some really, some difficult

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circumstances in your life. And if you don't mind, I just like

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for you to take the floor for a few minutes. Nelson to share a

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little bit of your life story a little bit. What got you to this

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place today?

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Sure. Yeah, I've got quite the origin story.

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My mom became pregnant with me when she was 15 years old. And

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while she was pregnant with me, her father, who was the local

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trash collector in a small town, drove into the town square,

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spotted two police officers stuck a gun out the window and

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open fire on those police officers killing one and

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critically wounding another. And eventually, my grandfather was

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captured and brought to stand trial where he was facing the

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death penalty. And during his trial, my mom got up and

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testified to the jury, that the reason that her father had shot

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and killed that police officer was that that police officer had

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raped her. And she was now pregnant with his baby, who was

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me. And my mom's testimony work. My grandfather's first trial

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ended in a first in a hung jury. The second trial, they took the

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death penalty off the table. And my grandfather was found guilty

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and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of

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parole, which he ended up spending 40 years in prison. And

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essentially, you know, went to prison leaving behind his family

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of 15 children, and including my mom, and now me to kind of live

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in the wake of, of those consequences. And then, you

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know,

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that takes your breath away, right there. Your

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story, but that there is just like, devastating My goodness.

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But please continue.

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Yeah, I mean, my life didn't get any

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easier from that, you know, of course, being, you know, having

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a 15 year old mother. But eventually my mom turned 21. And

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she met a man who eventually would become my stepfather. But

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come to find out he was an alcoholic, very emotionally and

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physically abusive to me and my mom, almost on a daily basis.

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Eventually, my mom had four more children with my stepfather. And

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because of the lifestyle that they're, they were living a lot

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of the basic needs, and my siblings fell upon me as the

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oldest. My mom would, would rather me stay home and help

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with the kids instead of go to school and, and I hated school.

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You know, and I remember it my fourth grade year of looking

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down at my report card and seeing that I had strayed F's

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and that I would be repeating the fourth grade. And I probably

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missed 50 or 60 days of school that year. I couldn't read, I

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couldn't write, I can't spell. And the following year, they

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placed me into special ed to try to get the help that I needed.

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And so that's kind of where my schooling went. And then

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eventually, one day my stepfather was walking home

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drunk from a bar. There was somebody else who was driving

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home drunk from that bar and ended up hitting and killing

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him. And it was at this time that my mom, she has five kids

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now. My youngest sister was just born. I think she's three or

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four months at this at time, but as hard as my mom's life has

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been to this point, you know, losing my stepfather no matter

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how abusive he was left my mom, really with no hope. My mom had

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dropped out of school in the eighth grade, she had never

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worked outside of the home. And here she is left alone to raise

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five small children. And it's at this time that she decides that

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she can't do it, and that she attempt suicide. And

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fortunately, she was not successful. But whenever she was

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released from the hospital, it was at this time that she

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decided she couldn't care for all five of us on our own. And

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that's when I went to go live with my grandmother who is the

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wife of the man who shot and killed the police officer. And

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as I said, she has 15 children, some of those children are still

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living at home, when I go to live with her. And because my

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grandma was a saint, she was also raising four or five other

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grandchildren at the time for various reasons. And so I go to

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live with her. And for the first time, I don't have to worry

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about somebody coming home drunk and beating me or my mom, I

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don't have to worry about waking up to take care of babies and

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2am feedings. And the one role that my grandma did have is she,

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she wasn't high on education. But the one thing that she did

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expect was that you were going to go to school, and and that

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was probably for her own sake, you know, having 15 kids, that's

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probably your only break is when your kids go to school. So I

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started to go to school on a regular basis. And I started to

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kind of reflect upon my life and the direction that it was going.

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And then one day, a counselor from the local university came

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to our school, and we had an assembly and she kind of talked

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about the things that you needed to do to get into college. And

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for the first time, I started to think, you know, what, what if I

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can go to college, and, you know, I thought at the time that

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would solve all of my problems. And you know, what it's like,

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whenever you set a goal, or you start to think of something

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that's going to be hard, that voice in the back of your head,

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starts to scream at you all the reasons that you shouldn't even

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think about doing that. And I remember thinking, you know,

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Nelson, you're in special ed, you can't read, you can't write,

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you can't spell of my mom's family of those 15 children,

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only two had ever graduated from high school. And, you know, I

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started thinking to myself, Nelson, you're gonna be lucky to

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graduate high school, let alone go to college. But, you know, I

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saw where my life was heading. And this was the one thing that

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I could kind of focus on to see a better future for myself. So

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from that day on, I started to kind of do the things that I

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thought I needed to do, that would get me to college, and 12

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years after that, four different universities, fours in, in the

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Air Force to get money to go to school, eventually became that

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first person in my family to graduate from college, and get

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that college degree.

Brad Miller:

What a powerful witness to a devastating life

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growing up, and then making the influence of a person in your

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life and then making a really life changing decision about

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college. And given your background, a lot of people get

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stuck there. Nelson, you know, people get stuck into

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circumstances you were talking about and don't make it out. And

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you did. And you've had some success in the business world.

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And before we go a little bit further and your, your story,

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just tell us a little bit about what types of businesses you've

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been involved with, and how, what what the point I want to

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make is that you've evolved out of college into having some

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success in your life. So tell us a bit about what type of things

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you've been involved with.

145.Nelson Tressler 00:08:50

Yeah, so I was fortunate enough to get a

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job right out of college in the commercial in commercial real

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estate industry. And I've done that for the last 20 years. And

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it was fortunate enough to become the top salesman in the

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in the retail division worldwide for a top five firm, multiple

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times. So I've had some great success there. I've also started

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other businesses, I've started children's daycare center in Las

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Vegas and built that to one of the largest chains in Las Vegas.

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And then was also fortunate enough to build one of the

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largest pet resort chains in the country, you know, privately

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held pet resort chains in the country, and was able to sell

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both of those businesses. And you get to that point in your

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life. You know, I don't ever envision myself propping my feet

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up and and watching sunsets. That's just not in my DNA. And

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so I was thinking, Okay, what do I want to do with the rest of my

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life? And for the longest time, that story that I just told the

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only person who knew that story Was my wife, I ran from that

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story, I joined the Air Force to get out of that small town I

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never, you know, went back, I've gone back to that small town,

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but I never went back there to live because of everything that

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kinda I had to go through. And I talk a lot about that in my book

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beyond lucky sperm club. And now that you guys know my story, you

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kind of know where that title came from. But nobody knew about

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that. Those circumstances, none of my friends not even like my

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children, because I had run from it, it weaken me to think about

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that. And I started to kind of reflect Why did I live that type

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of life? Why was I placed into those circumstances. And I came

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up with, you know, the reason that I was there, I made it out

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of that. I've been able to overcome those circumstances.

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And I became obsessed with goals and personal development after

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that first big goal of graduating from college. And I

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determined at that time that I was wanted to spend the rest of

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my life to help other people realize that they're not a

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victim of their circumstances, that they're a product of their

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choices. And I started the new business, I got smarter, which

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is an app. And it's the program that I've kind of perfected over

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the last 20 years, as I've, you know, worked on goals and worked

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on personal development and becoming a better version of

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myself, I saw where I failed at goals and where I needed to a

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little bit of help. And the program that's out there with I

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got smarter. Essentially, patches, all those holes in

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helps people fulfill their their dreams and their goals. Because

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the one thing I realize is we don't have a knowledge problem.

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When it comes to fulfilling our goals. We know what we need to

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do, we have an execution problem, we just don't do what

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we know we need to do. And that's what I got smarter does

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is it helps you do the things that you know you need to do

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when you need to do them. Yeah,

Brad Miller:

very good. Because what you said to them, I think

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is so key there, you've you made some choices that led to some

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new directions in your life. And now you're looking to make some

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choices to view contributor to other persons to help them to

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implement these areas. And we're bombarded by knowledge all the

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time. And most people have at least a sensibility about, about

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what it takes, you know, for instance, are you given when

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people talk about New Year's resolutions and so on goal

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setting above the basic ones are weight loss, and you know, make

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more money and to have better relationships. And yet, many

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people, you know, by the time February rolls around, they have

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fallen off and all those things are overeating, their

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relationships are still messed up and then move deeper in debt.

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And yet, so they know what to do, but they don't do it. So

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what you're sharing with is, is the actions to take and has to

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go with those choices. And, and I'm curious here for out of your

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own life, and then what you teach in your, in your in your

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courses, and in your app and your your application process.

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Let's talk a bit more about this area of choices. I like to call

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it bold actions, because I think they have to break a pattern,

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you know, we have to break our pattern of where we are kind of

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stuck in some areas, people People often use that

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terminology of being stuck on kind of stuck on my life on the

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grid, we're spinning my wheels and so on. What would you say

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are some of the dramatic bold choices that you took and that

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you advocate people take to break these patterns?

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Yeah, I think it all comes down to

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choice. And in my book, The on lucky sperm club, I talk about

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kind of the hand that worked out and I look at that is a lot of

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people feel like they've been dealt Erol hand whether it be at

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birth, or whether they what circumstances they find

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themselves in now. And what I talk about is the one the one

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way, you know, in poker, you only get you know, to discard

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your cards one time, and then that's the hand you're stuck

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with. But life is just like that. The only difference is is

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life, you get to discard your hand as many times as you want

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if you don't like your hand and the way that you do that is

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through the choices that you make. If you want different

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circumstances, what you need to do is start making different

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choices. And the problem I think that a lot of people have when

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it comes to choices is they want everything to be perfect before

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they make that choice. They want all those traffic lights to be

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green before they head down there, you know on their journey

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and and that almost never happens. So what we advocate is

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take that first step don't wait for all the lights to turn

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green. Chances are you know what one choice you need to start

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making today. That will get you closer to where you want to be.

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And what whether that's weight loss, whether that's your

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relationship, whether it's financial, those three key

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points that you touched on, we all know what that first step

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can be. In a lot of times what it's like is it's like walking

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through fog is you can't see but maybe two or three feet in front

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of you and thick fog, but when you take that first step you You

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can see two or three feet further, and you take another

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step you can see. And that's what happens when you act now

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and you make those choices is you might not know exactly what

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needs to happen next week or next month. But as you continue

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to make those choices, that vision opens up to you. And all

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you have to do is keep making those correct choices. And, you

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know, your life will drastically go in the direction that you're

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making those correct choices to do.

Brad Miller:

But nothing happens if we stay still. And we have to

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choose a direction and take some steps forward. Even if we have

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to alter the direction you got to keep moving. That's part of

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what I think in my life, you got to keep moving, keep going. So

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yeah, and we also need to realize that

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we're not looking for perfection here, none of us are going to

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live a perfect life. We're looking for progress. And if we

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have that mindset, that you know what I know, I'm going to fail,

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I know I'm not going to be perfect. I know I'm not going

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to, you know, do absolutely everything that I can do. But,

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you know, tomorrow, I'm going to be a little bit further ahead or

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a little bit closer to where I want to be. And next week, I'm

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going to be even closer next month, I'm going to be closer,

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is it going to be a perfect month? Probably not. But we need

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to have that long term perspective, we kind of talked

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about goals, and we talked about that in our program is those

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people who are successful in life, they have that long term

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perspective, they see where they want to be next month, next year

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and five years and 10 years, and they realize that it is a

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process. And they realize that there's going to be abin flows

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and peaks and valleys, but they know where they want to be in

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that long term. Yeah,

Brad Miller:

progress over perfection is a part of what I

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teach as well, I love that it's a part of your of your process

Brad Miller:

as well. And you you did mention something there Nelson, I found

Brad Miller:

very interesting, you talked about you know about the fog and

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about the putting one step in front of another and how you're

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not going to have airbelt you're not every, every brick of yellow

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brick road is always going to be lined up in front of you never

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signed it in front of you. But we have to take a step. And I'd

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like to stones call that a step of faith or you know, going out

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into the unknown, taking a risk risk, and you kind of get your

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ROI involved, what your what your I mean, your your your risk

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reward is what I'm trying to say not so much ROI. But let's talk

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a little bit about about that process is any part of your

Brad Miller:

process you're dealing with, you're talking about here

Brad Miller:

involves some sort of a sense of drawing on a power higher than

Brad Miller:

yourself, you know, that sometimes we have the inner

Brad Miller:

life, which helps drives us with tons of we need to draw

Brad Miller:

resources. And for some folks, that's religion, some folks

Brad Miller:

that's meditation, some folks that some other form of

Brad Miller:

emotional support, is any part of your process involves a

Brad Miller:

calling upon a greater power to empower you.

145.Nelson Tressler 00:17:48

Yeah, I'm a very spiritual person and have a

145.Nelson Tressler 00:17:51

strong faith. But I allow people you know, in that program, you

145.Nelson Tressler 00:17:57

know, that's a hot button. And some people want that in their

145.Nelson Tressler 00:18:00

lives, and some people don't, I wanted in my life, I have it in

145.Nelson Tressler 00:18:04

my life, I feel like it's a huge impact in my life. And I again,

145.Nelson Tressler 00:18:07

I talk about my conversion story in my book, The on lucky sperm

145.Nelson Tressler 00:18:11

club. But in our program, what we allow you to do, and I think

145.Nelson Tressler 00:18:15

this is one thing that's very unique, and helps tons of people

145.Nelson Tressler 00:18:20

is we allow people to invite what we call a success partner

145.Nelson Tressler 00:18:24

through the app. And in that app, you see real time what your

145.Nelson Tressler 00:18:28

success partner is doing. In the program, we have what we call a

145.Nelson Tressler 00:18:32

morning ritual, and a more a morning routine. And that's

145.Nelson Tressler 00:18:36

going through and we give gratitude every single day, we

145.Nelson Tressler 00:18:39

review our goals every day, we learn success principles every

145.Nelson Tressler 00:18:43

day. And then we kind of figure out what we need to do every day

145.Nelson Tressler 00:18:47

for our three goals that we're working on. And when you finish

145.Nelson Tressler 00:18:51

that morning routine, your success partner gets an alert

145.Nelson Tressler 00:18:56

that says, hey, Nelson finished his morning routine. And Brad,

145.Nelson Tressler 00:18:59

if you and I are partners. Now you can say kudos to me and

145.Nelson Tressler 00:19:03

communicate with me through the app. But what that also says is

145.Nelson Tressler 00:19:06

Brad, if you didn't do your morning routine, Oh, I got to

145.Nelson Tressler 00:19:09

get mine done because Nelson gets it done. And what we found

145.Nelson Tressler 00:19:12

is you're 95% more likely to follow through and do the things

145.Nelson Tressler 00:19:18

that you said you're going to do if you have that success partner

145.Nelson Tressler 00:19:21

who's there in the trenches with you, helping you and supporting

145.Nelson Tressler 00:19:25

you to see it through to the end, and you're also there for

145.Nelson Tressler 00:19:28

them. So it's that mutual benefit of you guys are in those

145.Nelson Tressler 00:19:32

trenches together working towards those goals.

Brad Miller:

So it holds you accountable and builds community

Brad Miller:

builds a important personal relationship. It's not just some

Brad Miller:

sort of a paper planner or electronic Gizmo. I mean, it

Brad Miller:

involves an app on your phone. I know but but it involves people

Brad Miller:

to read what I wanted to get with you I I just have a real

Brad Miller:

belief that powerful relay ships are what fuel life change, you

Brad Miller:

know, we have to be given some emotional up, you know emotional

Brad Miller:

energy that comes from relationships. And just like you

Brad Miller:

to say more about that either in your own personal life, you know

Brad Miller:

how that was impactful to get you to where you got, you know,

Brad Miller:

you, you mentioned some really challenging negative

Brad Miller:

relationships that you had to overcome. But I think for a lot

Brad Miller:

of us, we can be fueled by positive relationships and

Brad Miller:

Nandan. Any more you want to say about how that is implemented,

Brad Miller:

then in your program?

145.Nelson Tressler 00:20:32

Yeah, I mean, I think you look at

145.Nelson Tressler 00:20:34

anybody that you look at and feel like they're successful.

145.Nelson Tressler 00:20:39

And I guarantee you, they, they didn't do it alone, none of us

145.Nelson Tressler 00:20:42

do it alone, we always have that support network, those people

145.Nelson Tressler 00:20:45

who are encouraging us, those mentors that are kind of showing

145.Nelson Tressler 00:20:49

us the way, but I'll tell you, when when I was young, I didn't

145.Nelson Tressler 00:20:53

have a lot of mentors or a lot of positive role models. And the

145.Nelson Tressler 00:20:58

one thing that I did was, I didn't really know where I

145.Nelson Tressler 00:21:02

wanted to go. But I knew absolutely where I didn't want

145.Nelson Tressler 00:21:05

to end up. And I kind of did the things that I needed to do to

145.Nelson Tressler 00:21:09

get away from that. So if you feel like you don't have those

145.Nelson Tressler 00:21:13

positive role models in your life, start making those

145.Nelson Tressler 00:21:16

choices, to get away from where you want to be. And I think a

145.Nelson Tressler 00:21:21

lot of people get hung up on that, because they don't have

145.Nelson Tressler 00:21:23

that positive role model in their lives, they really don't

145.Nelson Tressler 00:21:27

have that person to look at and try to mirror their their

145.Nelson Tressler 00:21:30

movements and their actions. But just make those those actions

145.Nelson Tressler 00:21:35

and those choices to get away from what you know, you don't

145.Nelson Tressler 00:21:38

want to do. But But in our program, yes, we have a

145.Nelson Tressler 00:21:41

community that you're going to be like the people that you hang

145.Nelson Tressler 00:21:45

out with, I mean, there's been all kinds of studies about that,

145.Nelson Tressler 00:21:48

that your incomes going to be the average of the five people

145.Nelson Tressler 00:21:52

that you hang out with your mental abilities are going to be

145.Nelson Tressler 00:21:56

the the five people that you spend the most time with. So

145.Nelson Tressler 00:21:59

community is so important. And you need to get into that good

145.Nelson Tressler 00:22:04

community that shares the same values and the same standards

145.Nelson Tressler 00:22:07

and the same, you know, aspirations that you have. And

145.Nelson Tressler 00:22:10

what you find is that community, kind of the tide raises all

145.Nelson Tressler 00:22:14

ships, when you get in that right community, and you start

145.Nelson Tressler 00:22:18

surrounding yourself with like minded people, what you'll find

145.Nelson Tressler 00:22:21

is that energizes you and gives you those emotions that you need

145.Nelson Tressler 00:22:26

to get through those tough days. So I would absolutely stress

145.Nelson Tressler 00:22:31

that everybody find a community, wherever that is, whether it's

145.Nelson Tressler 00:22:35

in person, you know, which is a tough thing to do now with the

145.Nelson Tressler 00:22:38

pandemic. But you know, there's tons of online communities. I

145.Nelson Tressler 00:22:42

mean, we have our community at I got smarter, and Nelson

145.Nelson Tressler 00:22:45

Tressler. And just huge benefits from that, and I couldn't stress

145.Nelson Tressler 00:22:50

it enough. You

Brad Miller:

know, the part of that process of building

Brad Miller:

community is, you know, there's the interpersonal ones that you

Brad Miller:

mentioned, which are important. And sometimes that can be family

Brad Miller:

or other communities, you could be even, you know, the guys you

Brad Miller:

play basketball with at the Y or whatever, this kind of thing.

Brad Miller:

But it also can even be, I believe, even virtually not only

Brad Miller:

through Facebook groups, that kind of thing, but even through

Brad Miller:

great books, and through things like that, and through tape

Brad Miller:

programs, and maybe a program such as yours, where you can

Brad Miller:

start to be inspired by the work of others and speak into your

Brad Miller:

life. And I just think it's important that we build these

Brad Miller:

relationships, and implement them. And that's what I want to

Brad Miller:

talk to you about now is the implementation part of it.

Brad Miller:

Because I think as you mentioned here, Nelson, that is a part

Brad Miller:

that is a unique approach that you have, in many ways to many

Brad Miller:

other kind of life planning or processes that you know, there's

Brad Miller:

lots of goal setting type of books and processes there. I've

Brad Miller:

been through much of myself, and as well as apparently you have

Brad Miller:

as you've been developing. Let's talk about the implementation

Brad Miller:

piece. And what I told you about is, you mentioned a morning

Brad Miller:

routine and an evening routine and how the accountability

Brad Miller:

piece, let's talk about discipline, about habits about

Brad Miller:

the cognitive piece, how you imprint this on yourself,

Brad Miller:

because what we do know, my own experience and others is that

Brad Miller:

oftentimes we talk about goal setting and things like that.

Brad Miller:

And we are able to go with it for a while, but then it gets

Brad Miller:

hard and it drops off. Tell me what, tell me about the

Brad Miller:

disciplines, habits, processes procedure, the cognitive part

Brad Miller:

about your program about what you believe.

145.Nelson Tressler 00:24:32

Yeah, so the first part of our program we

145.Nelson Tressler 00:24:35

call our self assessment, and that's about getting crystal

145.Nelson Tressler 00:24:39

clear on really what you want in life. And I think that's one of

145.Nelson Tressler 00:24:42

the major issues when people fail with their goals. And, and

145.Nelson Tressler 00:24:46

we're not talking we're talking 95% of people fail at their

145.Nelson Tressler 00:24:51

goals within the first couple months. So if you feel like you

145.Nelson Tressler 00:24:55

haven't done well with goals, you're not alone and that's why

145.Nelson Tressler 00:24:59

I saw I need for, you know, this program I got smarter. But we,

145.Nelson Tressler 00:25:04

we become crystal clear on what we want, we also become crystal

145.Nelson Tressler 00:25:08

clear on what we're going to have to do to achieve that goal.

145.Nelson Tressler 00:25:11

And a lot of people think that they want to be wealthy. But

145.Nelson Tressler 00:25:16

what they realize is that they're not willing to either,

145.Nelson Tressler 00:25:19

you know, sacrifice their relationships, if it's going to

145.Nelson Tressler 00:25:22

take that sacrifice their health, if it's going to take

145.Nelson Tressler 00:25:24

that. So we make sure one you know what you you want, and then

145.Nelson Tressler 00:25:28

to you understand the price that you're going to have to pay for

145.Nelson Tressler 00:25:31

that. And then there's a lot of things that we've baked into our

145.Nelson Tressler 00:25:36

program to help you every single goal that we have has a self

145.Nelson Tressler 00:25:41

imposed positive reward, as well as a self imposed negative

145.Nelson Tressler 00:25:48

consequence that you're going to do whether or not you meet that

145.Nelson Tressler 00:25:52

goal, and your your success partner can help you stay

145.Nelson Tressler 00:25:55

accountable to that. But a lot of our minds, we either run

145.Nelson Tressler 00:25:59

towards pleasure, or we run away from fears or discomfort. So

145.Nelson Tressler 00:26:04

we've built that into the program. And, you know, it can

145.Nelson Tressler 00:26:08

be fun things like you know, what if if I'm not able to get

145.Nelson Tressler 00:26:11

to my target, wait, I'm going to dress up in a leotard and sing,

145.Nelson Tressler 00:26:16

you know, girls want to have fun on my Facebook page and post it,

145.Nelson Tressler 00:26:20

you know, so there's things like that, we also go as far as

145.Nelson Tressler 00:26:24

allowing your success partner to jump in there and put in and

145.Nelson Tressler 00:26:28

also a negative consequence, if you are not able to reach it.

145.Nelson Tressler 00:26:33

And you might be willing to kind of let yourself down and say,

145.Nelson Tressler 00:26:37

You know what, I'll just get on YouTube and saying, you know, I

145.Nelson Tressler 00:26:40

don't want to do it, but, but if I'm, if I'm willing to put my

145.Nelson Tressler 00:26:44

neck on the line that you're going to meet this, chances are,

145.Nelson Tressler 00:26:47

you're going to do everything that you can to make sure that I

145.Nelson Tressler 00:26:50

don't have to follow through with my consequence. So we've

145.Nelson Tressler 00:26:53

baked those things into it. I think another problem with a lot

145.Nelson Tressler 00:26:57

of programs out there is they have annual thinking, they want

145.Nelson Tressler 00:27:01

to set a goal for what you're going to do next year or five

145.Nelson Tressler 00:27:04

years from now. And our minds don't wrap around those things.

145.Nelson Tressler 00:27:08

There's not that sense of urgency. And then we've all just

145.Nelson Tressler 00:27:12

got through 2020, we all know how much the world can change in

145.Nelson Tressler 00:27:16

a year or a few months. So what we've done in I got smarter is

145.Nelson Tressler 00:27:21

we have huge goals, goals that are going to take years and five

145.Nelson Tressler 00:27:24

years and 10 years. But what we do is we break every goal down

145.Nelson Tressler 00:27:28

into a 30 day sprint. And we work on those goals in small

145.Nelson Tressler 00:27:32

bite sized pieces. And then we we evaluate and then we readjust

145.Nelson Tressler 00:27:37

every 30 days. And your mind really knows what it needs to do

145.Nelson Tressler 00:27:42

to hit that goal in 30 days from now. And if something comes up,

145.Nelson Tressler 00:27:47

in our program, people aren't throwing up their hands and

145.Nelson Tressler 00:27:50

giving up until next New Year's, they they're looking at that 30

145.Nelson Tressler 00:27:54

day sprint, they've either done well, or they haven't done well.

145.Nelson Tressler 00:27:58

But then you have that option to evaluate. And then you have

145.Nelson Tressler 00:28:01

that, you know that responsibility to kind of

145.Nelson Tressler 00:28:04

readjust and go at it again without losing months or even

145.Nelson Tressler 00:28:08

years at a time.

Brad Miller:

Yeah, there's I think he made some really

Brad Miller:

interesting points there. And I just kind of thinking about some

Brad Miller:

phrases that I've kind of used my own life. And one of them is

Brad Miller:

the Christmas planning panic, which he recalls Christmas rolls

Brad Miller:

around. And you realize you have some panic in your life about

Brad Miller:

several areas. Sometimes it's about I haven't done my

Brad Miller:

Christmas shopping or whatever, that kind of stuff, it also has

Brad Miller:

to do with I just haven't accomplished what I thought I

Brad Miller:

would and you try to get it all done. And you know, the last

Brad Miller:

party super just doesn't work that way. Because you've let

Brad Miller:

things go too much. And that's goes to the other piece of

Brad Miller:

things that is you, as I've sometimes termed it, the

Brad Miller:

Comfortably Numb club, where you just kind of stay stuck. And

Brad Miller:

you're just kind of numb and you just kind of zone out whether

Brad Miller:

it's watching TV or internet or whatever. And you don't take the

Brad Miller:

action and you have live with regret and remorse and all those

Brad Miller:

things and, and too many people are stuck there. And I think

Brad Miller:

this past year 2020 we had a lot of folks who were found

Brad Miller:

themselves in this pandemic situation where all of a sudden

Brad Miller:

your life hit them like a ton of bricks. Some people responded by

Brad Miller:

saying Okay, I'm going to take this time and do something with

Brad Miller:

it. Other people just were kind of just kind of shocked into

Brad Miller:

numbness again. And what I'm hearing you say here is there's

Brad Miller:

practices and processes that you can implement with your program

Brad Miller:

that can help us to do that. And I'd like to see talk to you now

Brad Miller:

for distributor to about the evidence of that. What I mean by

Brad Miller:

that is you've got this just your program six months to

Brad Miller:

success, the I got smarter app, and your your book. So that

Brad Miller:

means that you've probably got some new people who have

Brad Miller:

impacted in your programs and that is like to hear a little

Brad Miller:

bit about either success or a story or stories about some of

Brad Miller:

the folks who have implemented your process and how it made

Brad Miller:

some difference to them. Do you have a good story for us?

145.Nelson Tressler 00:29:59

Oh yeah. Yeah, there, there was a

145.Nelson Tressler 00:30:01

gentleman who joined our program. He had been unemployed

145.Nelson Tressler 00:30:05

for maybe nine, maybe 10 months. And this was, this wasn't this

145.Nelson Tressler 00:30:10

year, this was the previous years, struggled, was depressed,

145.Nelson Tressler 00:30:15

you know, just was not in a good place really in any area of his

145.Nelson Tressler 00:30:19

life, and joined our program, got the support came to the

145.Nelson Tressler 00:30:24

community, really dug in for the first time, and determined what

145.Nelson Tressler 00:30:30

he wanted with his life want, what he wanted with his goals,

145.Nelson Tressler 00:30:34

and was able to, you know, within, within three months, he

145.Nelson Tressler 00:30:39

found like his dream job, he had lost like 15 or 20 pounds, the

145.Nelson Tressler 00:30:45

relationships that, you know, at his family level, were better

145.Nelson Tressler 00:30:49

than they had been in, you know, a decade. And all that was is he

145.Nelson Tressler 00:30:54

just started to live life with focus again. And what he

145.Nelson Tressler 00:30:58

realized was, again, you know, with my book, he wasn't a victim

145.Nelson Tressler 00:31:02

of his circumstances he was, he was a product of the choices

145.Nelson Tressler 00:31:06

that he started to make. And what he started to do was, as

145.Nelson Tressler 00:31:10

he, as he kind of got through the program, and every day that

145.Nelson Tressler 00:31:14

he put behind him, he started to build up that momentum. And he

145.Nelson Tressler 00:31:18

started to believe in himself. And he started to realize that

145.Nelson Tressler 00:31:21

he was in control. And I think a lot of times people, they feel

145.Nelson Tressler 00:31:26

like, the reason that life is hard for them has been because

145.Nelson Tressler 00:31:31

of outside forces. And as soon as we start assigning our

145.Nelson Tressler 00:31:35

problems, our issues, our happiness, to outside forces, we

145.Nelson Tressler 00:31:40

give away all that control, because there's nothing that we

145.Nelson Tressler 00:31:43

can do if we're assigning it to other people, places or things.

145.Nelson Tressler 00:31:47

And as soon as he took responsibility for his happiness

145.Nelson Tressler 00:31:51

for his goals, and for his life, and he realized that he was in

145.Nelson Tressler 00:31:56

charge, that's when he started to build that momentum. And, you

145.Nelson Tressler 00:32:00

know, it's been over a year now, and his life is drastically

145.Nelson Tressler 00:32:05

different. And his health is better than it's been in two

145.Nelson Tressler 00:32:08

decades, his relationships are better than they've been in a

145.Nelson Tressler 00:32:11

long time. And he's, you know, still working at a job that he

145.Nelson Tressler 00:32:16

loves and loves to go to every day. Awesome. Awesome. That's

Brad Miller:

good. Great to hear. And that raised me around

Brad Miller:

to what I wanted us to focus in now on the folks who may be

Brad Miller:

listening to our voices here today. And you know, target of

Brad Miller:

what beyond adversity about is about helping people who have

Brad Miller:

experienced some adverse conditions and help them to come

Brad Miller:

out a better place I like to call it peace, prosperity and

Brad Miller:

purpose. But you provide us some tools and resources, of course,

Brad Miller:

and book and so on. So what are people going to find? Let's say

Brad Miller:

there is someone who's kind of stuck, or they're in that numb

Brad Miller:

place. And they've heard your story now, what are they going

Brad Miller:

to find it your websites and on your app that they can apply to

Brad Miller:

their life?

145.Nelson Tressler 00:32:58

Yeah, I think you know, my book, the

145.Nelson Tressler 00:33:00

unlucky sperm club, you're, you're not a victim of your

145.Nelson Tressler 00:33:02

circumstances, but a product of your choices, I think that's a

145.Nelson Tressler 00:33:06

great place to start. Because I think that kind of jerks a lot

145.Nelson Tressler 00:33:11

of people out of that victim mindset that they're stuck in.

145.Nelson Tressler 00:33:14

And they realize that there's people who are out there and

145.Nelson Tressler 00:33:17

very hard situations that figure out a way to do it. So I think,

145.Nelson Tressler 00:33:23

you know, the book is going to give you some inspiration, some

145.Nelson Tressler 00:33:26

motivation. And then the program and the app I got smarter is

145.Nelson Tressler 00:33:30

going to give you that plan that's going to give you that

145.Nelson Tressler 00:33:33

program, it's going to give you that the knowledge and the

145.Nelson Tressler 00:33:38

support, and the tools to finally follow through with what

145.Nelson Tressler 00:33:43

you know you need to do in order to accomplish your goals. And in

145.Nelson Tressler 00:33:48

that community will encourage you to stick with it. Because

145.Nelson Tressler 00:33:53

success is not an event. And I think a lot of people feel like

145.Nelson Tressler 00:33:56

you know, if I just make it here, everything's going to be

145.Nelson Tressler 00:33:59

better. Success is not an event. It's a journey. And in fact,

145.Nelson Tressler 00:34:03

success is a journey that never ends, we're always should be

145.Nelson Tressler 00:34:06

striving to become that better version of ourselves. Because in

145.Nelson Tressler 00:34:12

our program, the AI stands for the individual, you know, that

145.Nelson Tressler 00:34:16

person staring back at you in the mirror every single day.

145.Nelson Tressler 00:34:19

Everything in your life will you know reflect what type of person

145.Nelson Tressler 00:34:24

you are, what type of choices you're making, and what type of

145.Nelson Tressler 00:34:27

person you're becoming. And we start with that and everything

145.Nelson Tressler 00:34:31

kind of funnels to that person. That's what we're constantly

145.Nelson Tressler 00:34:34

working on. Because the only way that you're going to achieve

145.Nelson Tressler 00:34:37

those goals is that you're going to become the person who can

145.Nelson Tressler 00:34:39

achieve those goals. So we're always working on that person,

145.Nelson Tressler 00:34:42

that individual Awesome.

Brad Miller:

Well, you've heard it here now folks. The good

Brad Miller:

people have DB audit versity audience that and Elsa Trusler

Brad Miller:

has some things to offer to you and you can find him at I got

Brad Miller:

smarter, calm, that's the app and six months To success.com

Brad Miller:

and it's been our pleasure here today on beyond adversity to

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