What is going on? Y'all Robert Sykes Keto
savage.com. And today's podcast is not
really going to be like a normal podcast.
Every year I do a manifesto video.
I don't really focus on the New Year's resolutions.
I'm not really at the resolution type, but I do like having a
manifesto or a theme for the year.
So this video, this podcast is going to be all about my 2024
manifesto. I'm excited about it.
Very exciting times. This is going live on the first
of the year. Everybody's getting geared up
for what the future holds. So here we go.
Dive in. Let's roll the intro and then
get ready for what I'm going to be bringing to the table in
2024, 2024.
Ladies and gents, it is upon us. This is going out on the 1st,
January 1st of the new year. Every single year I do a
manifesto. So I've been doing this now for
I guess four or five years. Last year the manifesto was
Discipline Dictates Destiny. I felt like that was a fitting
manifesto because of the competition prep and just the
utmost priority that I lean into the discipline and daily habits
and just consistent action that led to my success with that
competition prep. And as is true with every prep I
go through, it has a transformative effect on my
mind, what I'm thinking, how I'm applying things, what I'm doing.
So I've taken all that I've learned throughout this 2023
competition prep, and I'm going to apply it to 2024, and it's
going to transcend the sport of bodybuilding and bleed into
other areas of my life, as it always does.
Which got me thinking, OK, what is the manifesto going to be for
2024? And I've decided on the
revolution. All right, so the revolution is
the theme, the manifesto for 2024, with a tagline being
reflect, Reflect, recalibrate, and re Engage.
If you look up revolution in the dictionary, you're going to get
a lot of different results. But the one I like the most is a
dramatic and wide reaching change in the way something
works or is organized or in people's ideas about it.
What does that mean to me in the context of this manifesto?
So when I look back on the business, my bodybuilding
career, my relationships, everything that pretty much
summarizes me as a person and my existence in this world, it has
all been the result of consistent effort over time.
You know, that's pretty much what bodybuilding as a sport can
be illustrated by in perfect form.
But there's several things in my life that have undergone a
significant change, and if you followed me long enough at all,
you've known that I've got this, this concept of tensegrity.
You know the the five pillars, the whole thing that live savage
is built upon. The five pillars being health,
wealth, relationships, self development and spirituality.
During the competition prep, obviously the health standpoint
like a fitness nutrition, that was the priority and I don't
believe that the different components that make up our live
need to fashion or need to to function some form of balanced
relationship. I I think balance is bullshit.
I've talked about that at length on many videos.
You know there's times in your life there's chapters that you
go through in which you need to lean into one of those pillars
more than the other. Ideally you have your life
structured in such a way that each pillar builds upon the
whole and that even if you're leaning more into one than the
others, the whole ship rises, so to speak.
So 2023, I was really doubling down on the the health and
fitness component of things and not that anything else
necessarily suffered or saw a decline, but it wasn't the
priority. But the competition, prep and
just what I experienced throughout that endeavour has
given me a new framework, a new way of thinking.
It's been a transformative experience as they all tend to
be. And now I can go forward into
2024 with this revolutionary thought process and just sense
of focus and attack the other areas of my life that I want to
focus more on going forward. So there's going to be a
noticeable improvement in all these other pillars of my life.
Leveraging what I've learned and what principles I applied
through the prep and beyond. This whole concept of reflecting
is going to be taking stock of what has led to the success I've
experienced thus far in life. What has been?
What has my foundation been built upon?
What has worked, What has not worked?
What can I glean from those experiences?
What can I apply going forward, Discard what doesn't work and
double down on what does recalibrate that's going to be
me taking stock of what I currently have in existence.
The different legs of the business, the different
relationships I have, the different pillars of my life and
then just focusing on getting those dialed in and then re
engage is going to be me attacking those different
pillars, those different legs of my business legs of my life with
just utmost intensity. All the intensity that I was
applying to the prep itself, the discipline, macro tracking, the
weighing of all the foods, the meal prep, the training, the
cardio, the posing that is no longer on my plate.
I can take all the mental and physical bandwidth that was
applying to those things and apply that to everything else,
and everything else is going to flourish as a result.
Re engage is just attacking those areas of my life that I
put stock in. Put importance, input,
significance in with utmost intensity and intentionality.
We go, we all go through life and we go through life in this.
This sense of complacency, if we allow it to happen, you know,
one day bleeds into the next, and it's easy to just let your
life unfold without any tangible shift or improvement in your
trajectory. Life is short.
Life is fine. We're all going to die.
We're going to be fertilizing daffodils at some point.
The actions that you put forth now compound into who you become
as an individual. I'm proud of where I've gotten
thus far in life, but I'm most certainly not satisfied and not
content with it. There's a lot that I still want
to do. So I'm going to take stock and
reflect on what I am proud of, what I do want to continue to
pour into. I'm going to discard those
things that aren't. I'm going to take the intensity
that I've been able to allocate towards the prep and apply it to
those things in a very recalibrated, organized fashion.
We're going to be launching a competition prep course early in
2024. Once that course is live, I'm
not launching any other new businesses this year.
I'm going to focus on refining and reforming and polishing the
ones that we have. That's going to result in some
significant improvement in how businesses run from an
operational standpoint and just the foundation that we're
building as a company. When I look at my personal life,
my relationship with my wife, my relationship with my son, any
future children we have going forward, I want to be able to
pour into them and give them my best self.
I can't do that if I'm running around with a full blown plate
of distractions that aren't contributing to the overall
betterment of me as a human and what I'm able to provide value
wise to others around me. So anything that's not moving
the needle forward gets discarded.
I'm going to just refine and Polish my life like never
before. Going forward into 2024.
When you're in a prep, as I've recently come out of, you don't
have the physical or mental bandwidth to have any
distractions in your life. You don't have the energy to put
up with the nonsense. So I discarded everything that
wasn't moving me forward to that.
So I've got a very clean slate going into 2024.
I'm excited about that. I'm excited about just stripping
away the noise in my life and then focusing on what matters,
what is actually moving the needle forward, what's
important, and then attacking that with utmost intensity and
pouring more value into it. And then just regaining that
sense of clarity and focus on all the things in life that
matter. All of this is going to result
in a revolution in my life and those that are affected by my
life and those things that are influenced by my life.
You will see a market improvement in the business, in
all the different businesses, in everything that encompasses and
is part of my sphere. I can assured you that without a
shadow of a doubt. I encourage you to do something
similar in your own life. Don't necessarily look at a new
year as this resolution thing where you have to, you know,
lose 10 lbs or make some arbitrary goal.
Figure out what has worked well for you in the past, Discard
that that does not move you forward.
Double down the intensity for those things that are, and then
create a revolution within yourself.
Figure out who you want to be, what you want to become, what's
going to add the most value to your life and those around you,
and then focus on improving that with everything.
You've got every fiber in your being.
That is what I'm going to be doing in 20/24/2024 is going to
be the revolution in my life. I'm going to reflect, I'm going
to recalibrate and I'm going to reengage.
So get ready.