What's going on y'all? 2025 is here.
That means it's time for a manifesto video.
I do manifestos every year. I don't even remember when the
first year I did one was. I don't remember my manifesto
for the last year. 2024 was reflect, recalibrate and
Reengage because I had so much that I needed to do to just get
organized, my business organized with my life and just get things
dialed in. The year before that, 2023, when
I did those five competitions, my manifesto was a discipline
that dictates destiny because discipline was going to be what
saw me through that 33 week long competition prep and that is
what ensured that I reached the goal of becoming the leanest men
alive and being my best self on stage.
This year. Ladies and gentlemen, 2025, my
manifesto is adapt and overcome. I'm not really big on
resolutions. I see so many people start and
stop things because they lack the staying power to adhere to
it for a year. I'm much more so about goals and
just execution, execution on those goals.
Last year we obviously had a whole bunch of turmoil take
place within the business as far as the ingredient sourcing went.
The massive skyrocketing of the cost of cacao butter, you know,
took me through the ringer, so to speak.
I had to go to Brazil. I had to do all this stuff to
kind of figure out how to overcome that obstacle.
And going into this year, we are, you know, obviously
releasing a lot more tallow based flavors.
We're having to pivot, we're having to adjust.
We're having to figure out a solution.
That's what it's all about, figuring out solutions.
I could easily, you know, throw a white flag in the air and say
this is it, I'm done, you know, sign me out.
But then what does that accomplish?
You know, life is not supposed to be easy.
Truth be told, I don't want it to be easy.
I like the fact, as much as I hate to say that, you know, I
got to wake up and freaking do a cold plunge first thing in the
morning. I like the fact that there's
times I don't have any money in my bank account.
I got to figure out a way to get a creative newsletter written or
a social post made to drive attention and awareness and
traffic to the website to make sales.
I like that sometimes I've got an injury and it hurts to do a a
specific movement, but I've got to train that body part anyways.
I like adversity. Adversity is my friend.
Adversity gives us reason to work, gives us reason to to
fight, gives us reasons to live. And 2025 is going to see a lot
more adversity for me. We got to figure out how to
tallow bricks during the summertime.
That's going to be a massive headache, but I'm going to
figure it out. We got to figure out how to have
another kid. Have we got a kid coming at the
end of June? We have two little chaos bundles
of joy running around the house. That's going to create a whole
host of complexities as well. But guess what?
I'm looking forward to it. I love it.
I love having things coming into
my life every single day that forced me to learn more about
myself, to grow, to evolve, to revolve, to adapt and to
overcome. That is why the manifesto for
2025 is to do just that. Adapt the unknowns, adapt to the
uncertainties, adapt to the challenges and overcome them and
become bigger, better, stronger, more resilient and just better
as a result. We've got, you know, a
competition that we're hosting. I've never done that before.
I don't know what that's going to bring the table, but we're
going to figure it out and it's going to be the best one out
there. We've got retreats that we're
hosting. We've got new flavors, We've got
an apparel line revamp that we're doing.
Like I said, I've got the new kid coming along.
I've got so many things happening.
For me to take all these challenges and just have a pity
party and a wallow and pain and guilt and misery accomplishes
nothing and serves no one. If I can adapt and overcome
amidst all these obstacles, not only do I benefit as an
individual, but I could hopefully provide more value to
y'all. And that is the name of the
game. That's what gets me up every
single day. That's what I'm going to be
thinking of throughout the day in 2025.
Every single day of 2025. So whatever that manifest was
for you, harness it, leverage it, make it your own, and be the
best self you can be. Catch y'all later and kill it.