Latest / Motivation study / 2025 Morning Routine Advice That Will 10x Your Day
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- 0:02Speaker 1: Have you ever had one of those weeks where you
- 0:04Speaker 1: didn't exercise, didn't see the sun, didn't get outside? How
- 0:09Speaker 1: bad do you feel? Like that's all the feedback I
- 0:12Speaker 1: need to know that I'm never going to do that again.
- 0:15Speaker 2: Man, it's a struggle waking up at four o'clock in
- 0:17Speaker 2: the morning. It's not, you know, it's not easy.
- 0:20Speaker 3: And I still want to be challenged. So it's always
- 0:23Speaker 3: climbing that hill, climbing that mountain every day.
- 0:27Speaker 2: Step by step, we climb the mountains.
- 0:29Speaker 4: A deep understanding of myself has been the driver.
- 0:34Speaker 5: Making me able to go into.
- 0:37Speaker 4: That search and find, discover the excitement of life as
- 0:44Speaker 4: my companion.
- 0:46Speaker 6: Nothing is ever going to be self-evident. You're never going
- 0:48Speaker 6: to come across something like, this is what I meant
- 0:50Speaker 6: to do with the rest of my life. You are
- 0:51Speaker 6: going to find something that gives you more energy than
- 0:54Speaker 6: it takes. When you find something that when you do it,
- 0:57Speaker 6: you're like, ooh, this is fun, and you're actually energized
- 1:00Speaker 6: by it, then you're going to go down the path
- 1:02Speaker 6: of actually gaining skills in that.
- 1:04Speaker 3: This morning routine I'm about to share with you guys
- 1:06Speaker 3: was me putting together me traveling around the world.
- 1:10Speaker 2: I saw 27 countries. I journal all around the world.
- 1:15Speaker 3: And there were certain practices that I saw that I
- 1:18Speaker 3: knew I was interested in, and then I practiced it,
- 1:22Speaker 3: and it worked.
- 1:25Speaker 5: How do I actually manage my days?
- 1:26Speaker 3: Like how do I actually get up in the morning,
- 1:29Speaker 3: get something rolling and do this 365 days a year?
- 1:32Speaker 7: You know, we were meant to spend 85% of our
- 1:34Speaker 7: time outside as human beings. That's how we were engineered.
- 1:39Speaker 7: And we now spend more than 95% of our time indoors.
- 1:43Speaker 7: We regulate everything, our lighting, our temperature, our humidity, everything.
- 1:47Speaker 7: And so expose your skin to sunlight during the first
- 1:51Speaker 7: 45 minutes of the day and Why is that important?
- 1:54Speaker 7: Because first light is the most beautiful, beneficial light of
- 1:57Speaker 7: the day. It has healthy blue rays of light. You
- 2:01Speaker 7: will generate vitamin D3. You can actually take your shirt
- 2:04Speaker 7: off and expose it to sunlight.
- 2:06Speaker 3: So the first thing you do for me was I
- 2:09Speaker 3: wake up early in the morning and off the Tibetan monks,
- 2:12Speaker 3: they would throw their body, Tony Robbins and the Tibetan monks,
- 2:16Speaker 3: they would throw their bodies in cold water.
- 2:19Speaker 2: So I have a freestanding tub.
- 2:20Speaker 8: 55 degrees, I throw my body in cold plunge right
- 2:24Speaker 8: off the bat within the first 10 minutes when I
- 2:26Speaker 8: wake up. Imagine how foggy, how foggy your brain is
- 2:32Speaker 8: when you're waking up.
- 2:33Speaker 2: Think about it, man.
- 2:35Speaker 3: If you wake up at 4 o'clock in the morning,
- 2:37Speaker 3: I wake you up tomorrow morning, you and I, I
- 2:39Speaker 3: wake you up at 4 o'clock in the morning, how
- 2:41Speaker 3: foggy is your brain?
- 2:44Speaker 5: All the veins and arteries, they are flexible veins.
- 2:48Speaker 4: But they have become quite rigid because they don't contract
- 2:52Speaker 4: and dilatate as much.
- 2:55Speaker 5: And like any.
- 2:56Speaker 4: Muscle, you gotta train it to make it bigger, to
- 2:59Speaker 4: make it stronger.
- 3:00Speaker 5: It's an antagonism.
- 3:03Speaker 4: Dilatation, dilatation, contraction, dilatation, contraction. That is what is trained
- 3:11Speaker 4: by going into a cold shower, 15 seconds, and then
- 3:17Speaker 4: 30 seconds, 45, up to two minutes, and then you
- 3:20Speaker 4: are quite ready to go outside in wintertime.
- 3:24Speaker 5: To go a couple of minutes into icy water. That
- 3:27Speaker 5: is for safety that I'm saying.
- 3:30Speaker 4: Cold water, we don't have to think about existentialism, philosophies, Plato,
- 3:35Speaker 4: this and that.
- 3:37Speaker 5: All that, overboard.
- 3:39Speaker 4: All those books go overboard when you feel the experience.
- 3:44Speaker 5: And that is by going into cold water.
- 3:49Speaker 7: If you look at passion, elation, joy, arousal, libido, all
- 3:53Speaker 7: the sort of hell yeah, I won the lottery emotions,
- 3:55Speaker 7: the really elevated emotional states, they all require oxygen as
- 3:59Speaker 7: a part of their molecular structure. So when you're in
- 4:03Speaker 7: a low oxidative state, you've now missed out on the
- 4:06Speaker 7: upper tier of emotion. So mood starts to flatten. Well,
- 4:09Speaker 7: now all of a sudden you let this go on
- 4:11Speaker 7: for a few years and now you have a mood disorder. Anger, jealousy, despair, resentment.
- 4:17Speaker 7: These emotions do not require oxygen. You can be in
- 4:21Speaker 7: a deep sleep and instantly wake up angry. So these
- 4:26Speaker 7: are readily available emotions. So if we can just improve
- 4:29Speaker 7: the nutrient deficiencies in the human population and get hormones
- 4:34Speaker 7: to improve and get oxygen up in these bodies, we
- 4:37Speaker 7: can literally improve the mood of humanity. We get oxygen
- 4:42Speaker 7: from the air. And so it's about 21% O2 at
- 4:44Speaker 7: sea level. So get outside in the morning and do
- 4:48Speaker 7: three rounds of 30 deep breaths with a breath hold
- 4:51Speaker 7: in between. Just get the oxygen in. Don't worry about
- 4:54Speaker 7: whether it comes in through your nose or your mouth.
- 4:56Speaker 7: The style of breath work that I personally use is
- 4:58Speaker 7: one called Wim Hof. He deserves all the credit.
- 5:01Speaker 5: I started to do the breathing, this.
- 5:05Speaker 4: Deep breathing, also at home, apart of the cold.
- 5:10Speaker 5: Because by then I already knew it makes me stronger.
- 5:16Speaker 4: So let it be now without cold water. And then
- 5:20Speaker 4: I saw all the nervous system, all the lights, all
- 5:23Speaker 4: the chakras, all the esoteric discipline results I had read
- 5:30Speaker 4: in the books but never experienced. I had found something
- 5:36Speaker 4: so profound, I stuck to it. And when you stick
- 5:41Speaker 4: to it and you get into those disciplines, you automatically
- 5:45Speaker 4: get a mindset.
- 5:47Speaker 7: One of the reasons why sedentary lifestyle is the leading
- 5:50Speaker 7: cause of all-cause mortality, meaning sitting is the new smoking,
- 5:54Speaker 7: is because it reduces the oxidative state. We know that aging,
- 5:58Speaker 7: we know that disease is a progressive mitochondrial disease. It's
- 6:02Speaker 7: a dysfunction in the powerhouse of the cell called the mitochondria.
- 6:05Speaker 7: And the more that we can feed this mitochondria, and
- 6:08Speaker 7: properly power it, its favorite fuel source is oxygen, the
- 6:12Speaker 7: longer we're going to live, the healthier we're going to live,
- 6:14Speaker 7: the more cognizant we're going to be, the less disease-prone
- 6:17Speaker 7: we're going to be.
- 6:20Speaker 1: You don't have to go to a gym and crush yourself.
- 6:22Speaker 1: You don't have to get pinned under a barbell. You
- 6:25Speaker 1: don't have to break your back trying to deadlift the moon.
- 6:28Speaker 1: Go for a walk. Go for a light jog. spin
- 6:32Speaker 1: on a bike, play with your kids, but you've got
- 6:35Speaker 1: to do some exercise. It's a basic necessity of life.
- 6:39Speaker 6: What are your habits and your routines and your rituals
- 6:43Speaker 6: that have allowed you to stay so mentally and physically sharp?
- 6:47Speaker 9: Well, one thing was when I had this house built,
- 6:52Speaker 9: I had my bedroom built upstairs, so I'd have to
- 6:55Speaker 9: go upstairs every night to go to bed. And that's
- 6:59Speaker 9: been a good thing. I go up and down my steps.
- 7:03Speaker 9: It's been very helpful because I understand the importance of movement.
- 7:08Speaker 9: I understand the importance of walking. I try very hard
- 7:13Speaker 9: to walk 3,800 steps in my little house here with
- 7:23Speaker 9: my walker because I think it's very, very important to walk.
- 7:28Speaker 8: So I created a morning routine that was definitely optimized
- 7:31Speaker 8: to me.
- 7:32Speaker 5: I tried a million different things. I tried meditating.
- 7:34Speaker 2: I hated it.
- 7:35Speaker 9: I tried yoga. I fricking hated it.
- 7:37Speaker 4: And then I realized my jam was going into the
- 7:40Speaker 4: gym and lifting heavy weights.
- 7:42Speaker 3: That was my jam.
- 7:43Speaker 5: I realized I felt so good after I did that.
- 7:48Speaker 2: Your brain is a computer.
- 7:49Speaker 3: You got to boot it up. How do you boot
- 7:51Speaker 3: up the brain? There are certain ways to boot up
- 7:54Speaker 3: the brain. Changing your physiology, uh, You know, I wake
- 7:59Speaker 3: you up at four o'clock in the morning.
- 8:00Speaker 2: You're like, oh, dude, I'm still I'm still foggy. I'm like, OK, well,
- 8:05Speaker 2: 50 burpees. And then you hit 50 burpees. That would
- 8:10Speaker 2: change your physiology, wouldn't it?
- 8:13Speaker 3: If I if I if I take you outside, I
- 8:15Speaker 3: throw you in 55 degree cold plunge. That would change
- 8:19Speaker 3: your physiology. So I need to boot up that brain.
- 8:22Speaker 3: I need to wake up that brain.
- 8:25Speaker 6: It's why I tell people the most important thing to
- 8:27Speaker 6: realize is you're having a biological experience. Nature understands that
- 8:31Speaker 6: to get you to do the things that nature wants
- 8:33Speaker 6: you to do, which is have kids that live long
- 8:35Speaker 6: enough to have kids, that the only levers that it
- 8:39Speaker 6: has to pull have to do with creating desire or pain, right?
- 8:43Speaker 6: So you want to move towards something, you want to
- 8:45Speaker 6: move away from something.
- 8:47Speaker 1: Like when I wake up today, every single day, I
- 8:51Speaker 1: wake up grateful. I wake up happy.
- 8:54Speaker 2: I wake up excited.
- 8:56Speaker 9: Try to find joy and happiness. Find something that makes
- 9:04Speaker 9: you laugh, really gutting laugh, not something mean, but something
- 9:12Speaker 9: that really makes you feel like, oh, that's really, really funny.
- 9:18Speaker 9: And look for that kind of joy Reality in your lives.
- 9:26Speaker 10: That is where the mindset. Being motivational. Being emotion. Keep
- 9:33Speaker 10: the mind on moving. Keep the mind on finding. Because
- 9:39Speaker 10: the seeker becomes the finder.
- 9:42Speaker 4: And it's incredible what you can find within yourself.
- 9:48Speaker 5: It's amazing. It's much more than we think. There we are.
- 9:55Speaker 6: And so fulfillment is the only neurochemical state that I
- 9:59Speaker 6: think exists that's resilient to the ups and downs. And
- 10:03Speaker 6: so the irony of that, that that becomes transient, that
- 10:06Speaker 6: it's not meeting some need that nature has baked into
- 10:09Speaker 6: our hard wiring, it's like, okay, wait a second, then
- 10:11Speaker 6: just pursuing happiness is not the right thing. So fulfillment,
- 10:15Speaker 6: which I have a formula for, and I think this
- 10:17Speaker 6: is universal, this is just based on what evolution has
- 10:20Speaker 6: programmed into our brains, is you must work hard, in
- 10:24Speaker 6: pursuit of a set of skills that allows you to
- 10:27Speaker 6: serve not only yourself, but other people. Life is ultimately
- 10:33Speaker 6: about go out, do hard things that allow you to
- 10:37Speaker 6: serve the group and yourself. And if you do that,
- 10:40Speaker 6: you'll have a sense of fulfillment, even in the dark
- 10:43Speaker 6: days when it's hard, something goes wrong and it's a
- 10:44Speaker 6: major struggle. But you're like, I know why I'm doing this, right?
- 10:48Speaker 6: The act of service. I'm getting better at something. Improvement,
- 10:51Speaker 6: as Tony Robbins says, improvement is a foundational pillar to
- 10:55Speaker 6: human happiness. It's like you've got in that bundle all
- 10:58Speaker 6: the things you need to meet nature's requirements and you
- 11:02Speaker 6: will feel, even when it's hard, satisfied.
- 11:08Speaker 2: All right.
- 11:08Speaker 11: What does my average daily schedule consist of? Well, that's
- 11:11Speaker 11: fairly straightforward. I get up around somewhere between six and eight,
- 11:15Speaker 11: and then I work till 10 as hard as I
- 11:19Speaker 11: can flat out every single day. So, and I've been
- 11:22Speaker 11: doing that for with very little variation, although it's been
- 11:26Speaker 11: much more extreme in the last year for like since 1985,
- 11:30Speaker 11: like I work probably, well, I work, I would say
- 11:33Speaker 11: 14 hours a day. at least 14 hours a day.
- 11:37Speaker 11: And so that's about a hundred hours a week. And
- 11:40Speaker 11: the time that I don't do that, I spend with
- 11:42Speaker 11: friends and mostly with my family. And so, yeah, and
- 11:48Speaker 11: I work as efficiently as I possibly can. I'm always
- 11:51Speaker 11: trying to do everything I can as fast as I
- 11:54Speaker 11: possibly can. And I'm accustomed to that because like I said,
- 11:56Speaker 11: I've been doing it for, I've been doing it for
- 11:59Speaker 11: 30 years. If you are an anxious person and that's
- 12:01Speaker 11: manifesting itself in say neurotic over analysis, There's two things
- 12:05Speaker 11: you can do very rapidly. Three things, really, that will
- 12:08Speaker 11: help quell that. Well, four things even. Number one, get
- 12:13Speaker 11: up at the.
- 12:13Speaker 2: Same time every day.
- 12:14Speaker 11: And I would recommend in the morning because that's when
- 12:16Speaker 11: people generally get up. And it's good to do what
- 12:18Speaker 11: everyone else does unless you have a good reason not to.
- 12:21Speaker 11: Number two, eat a large breakfast.
- 12:24Speaker 12: Right.
- 12:25Speaker 11: Keep it carbohydrate light. You know, don't eat toast and
- 12:29Speaker 11: like and Froot Loops. That's not going to do the trick.
- 12:32Speaker 11: Make it fat and protein heavy and eat more than
- 12:35Speaker 11: you want. You might say, I'm not hungry in the morning.
- 12:37Speaker 11: It's like this has nothing to do with what you
- 12:39Speaker 11: want or what your appetite is. It's like you need
- 12:42Speaker 11: to eat in the morning. If you're an anxious person
- 12:45Speaker 11: and you don't eat in the morning and then you
- 12:47Speaker 11: stress yourself out, your body hyper produces insulin. It takes
- 12:50Speaker 11: all the blood sugar out of your blood and that
- 12:52Speaker 11: dysregulates your metabolism for the entire day. You can't reset
- 12:56Speaker 11: it till you go to sleep at night. And I've
- 12:57Speaker 11: had lots of anxious clients who would say fall into
- 13:00Speaker 11: the over analytic category who were like virtually cured by
- 13:04Speaker 11: eating a large breakfast every morning. I would highly recommend
- 13:07Speaker 11: that you could try some physical exercise. Weightlifting is really
- 13:10Speaker 11: good for curing anxiety. Another thing you can do, as
- 13:13Speaker 11: I alluded to earlier today, is to make a schedule
- 13:16Speaker 11: and start attending to your daily micro routines.
- 13:19Speaker 12: Well, I have certain fundamentals that haven't changed. I think
- 13:22Speaker 12: I've shared with you before, the first thing I do
- 13:24Speaker 12: every single morning is I go in freezing cold water.
- 13:27Speaker 12: I've shared this with many people. It's not because I'm
- 13:29Speaker 12: a masochist, but because it moves the lymph of your body,
- 13:33Speaker 12: as you well know. And when you jump in, it
- 13:35Speaker 12: never feels good to go in, but getting out, you
- 13:37Speaker 12: feel incredible. But I do it for a different reason.
- 13:40Speaker 12: I do it to train my brain to say, when
- 13:42Speaker 12: I say now, it means now. When I say go,
- 13:44Speaker 12: we go. I don't stand there because it's cold and go,
- 13:47Speaker 12: maybe in a minute when I'm ready. And I think
- 13:49Speaker 12: I've shared with you before, I don't think I've ever
- 13:51Speaker 12: had a morning I look forward to jumping in that
- 13:53Speaker 12: water ever. But I always do it because I've trained
- 13:56Speaker 12: my brain. This is how we work. And if you
- 13:58Speaker 12: train your brain to do that every single day, then
- 14:00Speaker 12: it'll do it on the more difficult and important things
- 14:02Speaker 12: in life. But I also then I do my priming.
- 14:05Speaker 12: I think you're familiar with, which is I do 10
- 14:08Speaker 12: minutes and I pick 10 minutes because if I said
- 14:10Speaker 12: do 20 minutes or 30, I don't have time. But
- 14:13Speaker 12: if you don't have 10 minutes for your life, you
- 14:14Speaker 12: don't have much of a life to work on both
- 14:16Speaker 12: their business side of the life and personal one of each.
- 14:19Speaker 12: And in order for either one of those to work,
- 14:21Speaker 12: you need to be in a strong emotional state. And
- 14:23Speaker 12: if you start with your body like, you know, I
- 14:24Speaker 12: start every morning in my cold water, start morning with
- 14:26Speaker 12: my workout.
- 14:27Speaker 5: I started every morning on feeding my mind.
- 14:29Speaker 12: Right. So there's certain things you've got to do physically.
- 14:32Speaker 12: So you're strong enough to remember the truth, because remember,
- 14:34Speaker 12: fear is physical. You feel it in your throat or
- 14:37Speaker 12: your gut. So is courage. Courage doesn't mean you're not afraid.
- 14:39Speaker 12: It just means you're strong enough you push through in
- 14:42Speaker 12: spite of the fear, right? And courage feels different in
- 14:44Speaker 12: the body. So when you go lift or you go
- 14:46Speaker 12: for a sprint or a strong run or you jump
- 14:48Speaker 12: in that freezing water, when you push your mind to
- 14:51Speaker 12: go beyond what's comfortable, you feel a strength inside you
- 14:54Speaker 12: and that strength will help you to change your body,
- 14:56Speaker 12: your emotions.
- 14:56Speaker 5: Your relationships, whatever.
- 14:57Speaker 13: I'm waking up these days around 6 a.m., 6.30 a.m.
- 15:01Speaker 13: When I wake up, I make a beeline for sunlight.
- 15:03Speaker 13: The single best thing you can do for your sleep,
- 15:05Speaker 13: your energy, your mood, your wakefulness, your metabolism is to
- 15:09Speaker 13: get natural light in your eyes early in the day.
- 15:12Speaker 13: And if you live in an area where it's very
- 15:14Speaker 13: cloudy outside, just know that the sunlight, the photons coming
- 15:17Speaker 13: through that cloud cover are brighter than your brightest indoor lights.
- 15:22Speaker 13: I would say this is the fundamental thing of any
- 15:25Speaker 13: good morning. And if you don't do this enough, you
- 15:29Speaker 13: are messing yourself up in a number of ways. This
- 15:32Speaker 13: sets in motion a huge number of different neurobiological and
- 15:36Speaker 13: hormonal cascades that are good for you, reduces stress late
- 15:40Speaker 13: at night, offsets cortisol, a million different things, really. I hydrate,
- 15:44Speaker 13: I drink water, and then I have this obsession with
- 15:47Speaker 13: trying to do one cognitively hard thing a day, one,
- 15:52Speaker 13: and one physically hard thing a day. In that 90 minutes,
- 15:55Speaker 13: I'll typically try and read a research article start to finish,
- 15:58Speaker 13: or I'll work on a document that I might be
- 16:00Speaker 13: doing a grant or research paper.
- 16:02Speaker 14: So I don't think there's a default template for success,
- 16:05Speaker 14: but I think there's things that you can do to
- 16:07Speaker 14: put yourself.
- 16:07Speaker 5: In the best position to succeed. I talk about the.
- 16:09Speaker 14: One thing in business you can control is effort, going
- 16:13Speaker 14: out there and sales, curing all. So I think, and
- 16:17Speaker 14: I agree with your point, that there are things that
- 16:20Speaker 14: if you do them, you put yourself in the best
- 16:22Speaker 14: position to succeed. They're out there trying to take you
- 16:25Speaker 14: down and they're not just going to sit still. And
- 16:27Speaker 14: if you're good, really, really good, you're going to inspire
- 16:30Speaker 14: them to work even harder, faster, better. And so you
- 16:32Speaker 14: have to be very self-aware of what you're good at
- 16:35Speaker 14: and what other people are good at. And that's the
- 16:38Speaker 14: brains part. And that's the effort part as well. Because look,
- 16:41Speaker 14: if you're competing with me, you better know what you're doing.
- 16:45Speaker 5: Otherwise, I'm going to kick your ass. You know, and
- 16:46Speaker 5: you're not going to outwork me.
- 16:48Speaker 14: And so, you know, the combination is usually what kills
- 16:51Speaker 14: businesses early on more than anything. If you outwork everybody,
- 16:55Speaker 14: if you try to be a little smarter than everybody,
- 16:57Speaker 14: if you try to be a better salesperson than everybody,
- 17:00Speaker 14: if you try to be better prepared than everybody, you've
- 17:02Speaker 14: got your best chance.
- 17:03Speaker 5: Because if you.
- 17:04Speaker 14: Don't do it and somebody else does, you know, I
- 17:08Speaker 14: have the saying, work like someone's trying to take it
- 17:09Speaker 14: all away from you. You know, actually work like someone's
- 17:12Speaker 14: spending 24 hours, working 24 hours to take it all
- 17:14Speaker 14: away from you, man.
- 17:15Speaker 5: And that's kind of the way I look at it.
- 17:17Speaker 6: Now, when I think about a morning routine and what
- 17:20Speaker 6: order I'm going to do things in, then it has
- 17:23Speaker 6: to do with what's going on in my life at
- 17:24Speaker 6: that point. What's the most important thing to me in
- 17:27Speaker 6: that moment? So when I'm really focused on getting my
- 17:31Speaker 6: physique in order, I'm focused on the gym as being
- 17:37Speaker 6: the thing that I want to make sure that no
- 17:39Speaker 6: matter what else happens during the day, I get that done.
- 17:42Speaker 6: then I do that first. And that really is what
- 17:44Speaker 6: slot number one is for in any morning routine is
- 17:48Speaker 6: what is the most important thing that you know, no
- 17:51Speaker 6: matter what else falls by the wayside during this day,
- 17:54Speaker 6: if it gets crazy, things will crop up that I
- 17:57Speaker 6: know that I'm going to get that thing. One of
- 17:59Speaker 6: the beliefs you have to get in line is that
- 18:01Speaker 6: it's worth getting out of bed, that you want to
- 18:03Speaker 6: do this new thing that you want to stop doing
- 18:06Speaker 6: thing a and start doing thing B you're in the gym.
- 18:08Speaker 6: You're struggling, you're out of breath, you're pushing hard, you're
- 18:11Speaker 6: putting yourself into that stressful fight or flight mode.
- 18:14Speaker 5: Boom, that wakes you up, okay? You need that.
- 18:17Speaker 6: Cortisol to get you springing out of bed. Let me
- 18:20Speaker 6: tell you, one set, I'm breathing heavy, my blood is
- 18:24Speaker 6: pumping and boom, all of a sudden I'm wide awake.
- 18:27Speaker 12: This is your time, but you have to get your
- 18:29Speaker 12: head straight and you got to get your energy strong.
- 18:31Speaker 12: And that's not easy when most people are shoved in
- 18:32Speaker 12: their houses and isolated and heard nothing but fear. So
- 18:35Speaker 12: you got to take back control.