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What is going on? 
Y'all Robert Sykes Keto 

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savage.com. 
And today's podcast is not 

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really going to be like a normal
podcast. 

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Every year I do a manifesto 
video. 

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I don't really focus on the New 
Year's resolutions. 

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I'm not really at the resolution
type, but I do like having a 

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manifesto or a theme for the 
year. 

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So this video, this podcast is 
going to be all about my 2024 

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manifesto. 
I'm excited about it. 

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Very exciting times. 
This is going live on the first 

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of the year. 
Everybody's getting geared up 

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for what the future holds. 
So here we go. 

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Dive in. 
Let's roll the intro and then 

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get ready for what I'm going to 
be bringing to the table in 

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2024, 
2024. 

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Ladies and gents, it is upon us.
This is going out on the 1st, 

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January 1st of the new year. 
Every single year I do a 

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manifesto. 
So I've been doing this now for 

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I guess four or five years. 
Last year the manifesto was 

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Discipline Dictates Destiny. 
I felt like that was a fitting 

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manifesto because of the 
competition prep and just the 

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utmost priority that I lean into
the discipline and daily habits 

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and just consistent action that 
led to my success with that 

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competition prep. 
And as is true with every prep I

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go through, it has a 
transformative effect on my 

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mind, what I'm thinking, how I'm
applying things, what I'm doing.

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So I've taken all that I've 
learned throughout this 2023 

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competition prep, and I'm going 
to apply it to 2024, and it's 

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going to transcend the sport of 
bodybuilding and bleed into 

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other areas of my life, as it 
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Which got me thinking, OK, what 
is the manifesto going to be for

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2024? 
And I've decided on the 

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revolution. 
All right, so the revolution is 

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the theme, the manifesto for 
2024, with a tagline being 

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reflect, Reflect, recalibrate, 
and re Engage. 

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If you look up revolution in the
dictionary, you're going to get 

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a lot of different results. 
But the one I like the most is a

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dramatic and wide reaching 
change in the way something 

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works or is organized or in 
people's ideas about it. 

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What does that mean to me in the
context of this manifesto? 

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So when I look back on the 
business, my bodybuilding 

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career, my relationships, 
everything that pretty much 

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summarizes me as a person and my
existence in this world, it has 

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all been the result of 
consistent effort over time. 

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You know, that's pretty much 
what bodybuilding as a sport can

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be illustrated by in perfect 
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But there's several things in my
life that have undergone a 

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significant change, and if you 
followed me long enough at all, 

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you've known that I've got this,
this concept of tensegrity. 

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You know the the five pillars, 
the whole thing that live savage

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is built upon. 
The five pillars being health, 

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wealth, relationships, self 
development and spirituality. 

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During the competition prep, 
obviously the health standpoint 

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like a fitness nutrition, that 
was the priority and I don't 

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believe that the different 
components that make up our live

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need to fashion or need to to 
function some form of balanced 

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relationship. 
I I think balance is bullshit. 

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I've talked about that at length
on many videos. 

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You know there's times in your 
life there's chapters that you 

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go through in which you need to 
lean into one of those pillars 

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more than the other. 
Ideally you have your life 

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structured in such a way that 
each pillar builds upon the 

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whole and that even if you're 
leaning more into one than the 

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others, the whole ship rises, so
to speak. 

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So 2023, I was really doubling 
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fitness component of things and 
not that anything else 

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necessarily suffered or saw a 
decline, but it wasn't the 

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priority. 
But the competition, prep and 

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just what I experienced 
throughout that endeavour has 

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given me a new framework, a new 
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It's been a transformative 
experience as they all tend to 

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be. 
And now I can go forward into 

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2024 with this revolutionary 
thought process and just sense 

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of focus and attack the other 
areas of my life that I want to 

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focus more on going forward. 
So there's going to be a 

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noticeable improvement in all 
these other pillars of my life. 

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Leveraging what I've learned and
what principles I applied 

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through the prep and beyond. 
This whole concept of reflecting

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is going to be taking stock of 
what has led to the success I've

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experienced thus far in life. 
What has been? 

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What has my foundation been 
built upon? 

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What has worked, What has not 
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What can I glean from those 
experiences? 

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What can I apply going forward, 
Discard what doesn't work and 

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double down on what does 
recalibrate that's going to be 

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me taking stock of what I 
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The different legs of the 
business, the different 

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relationships I have, the 
different pillars of my life and

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then just focusing on getting 
those dialed in and then re 

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engage is going to be me 
attacking those different 

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pillars, those different legs of
my business legs of my life with

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just utmost intensity. 
All the intensity that I was 

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applying to the prep itself, the
discipline, macro tracking, the 

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weighing of all the foods, the 
meal prep, the training, the 

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cardio, the posing that is no 
longer on my plate. 

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I can take all the mental and 
physical bandwidth that was 

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applying to those things and 
apply that to everything else, 

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and everything else is going to 
flourish as a result. 

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Re engage is just attacking 
those areas of my life that I 

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put stock in. 
Put importance, input, 

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significance in with utmost 
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We go, we all go through life 
and we go through life in this. 

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This sense of complacency, if we
allow it to happen, you know, 

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one day bleeds into the next, 
and it's easy to just let your 

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life unfold without any tangible
shift or improvement in your 

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trajectory. 
Life is short. 

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Life is fine. 
We're all going to die. 

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We're going to be fertilizing 
daffodils at some point. 

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The actions that you put forth 
now compound into who you become

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as an individual. 
I'm proud of where I've gotten 

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thus far in life, but I'm most 
certainly not satisfied and not 

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content with it. 
There's a lot that I still want 

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to do. 
So I'm going to take stock and 

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reflect on what I am proud of, 
what I do want to continue to 

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pour into. 
I'm going to discard those 

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things that aren't. 
I'm going to take the intensity 

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that I've been able to allocate 
towards the prep and apply it to

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those things in a very 
recalibrated, organized fashion.

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We're going to be launching a 
competition prep course early in

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2024. 
Once that course is live, I'm 

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not launching any other new 
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I'm going to focus on refining 
and reforming and polishing the 

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ones that we have. 
That's going to result in some 

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significant improvement in how 
businesses run from an 

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operational standpoint and just 
the foundation that we're 

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building as a company. 
When I look at my personal life,

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my relationship with my wife, my
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future children we have going 
forward, I want to be able to 

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pour into them and give them my 
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I can't do that if I'm running 
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of distractions that aren't 
contributing to the overall 

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betterment of me as a human and 
what I'm able to provide value 

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wise to others around me. 
So anything that's not moving 

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the needle forward gets 
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I'm going to just refine and 
Polish my life like never 

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before. 
Going forward into 2024. 

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When you're in a prep, as I've 
recently come out of, you don't 

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have the physical or mental 
bandwidth to have any 

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distractions in your life. 
You don't have the energy to put

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up with the nonsense. 
So I discarded everything that 

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wasn't moving me forward to 
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So I've got a very clean slate 
going into 2024. 

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I'm excited about that. 
I'm excited about just stripping

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away the noise in my life and 
then focusing on what matters, 

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what is actually moving the 
needle forward, what's 

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important, and then attacking 
that with utmost intensity and 

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pouring more value into it. 
And then just regaining that 

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sense of clarity and focus on 
all the things in life that 

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matter. 
All of this is going to result 

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in a revolution in my life and 
those that are affected by my 

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life and those things that are 
influenced by my life. 

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You will see a market 
improvement in the business, in 

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all the different businesses, in
everything that encompasses and 

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is part of my sphere. 
I can assured you that without a

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shadow of a doubt. 
I encourage you to do something 

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similar in your own life. 
Don't necessarily look at a new 

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year as this resolution thing 
where you have to, you know, 

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lose 10 lbs or make some 
arbitrary goal. 

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Figure out what has worked well 
for you in the past, Discard 

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that that does not move you 
forward. 

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Double down the intensity for 
those things that are, and then 

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create a revolution within 
yourself. 

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Figure out who you want to be, 
what you want to become, what's 

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going to add the most value to 
your life and those around you, 

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and then focus on improving that
with everything. 

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You've got every fiber in your 
being. 

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That is what I'm going to be 
doing in 20/24/2024 is going to 

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be the revolution in my life. 
I'm going to reflect, I'm going 

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to recalibrate and I'm going to 
reengage. 

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So get ready.