PDM 003: Half The Battle is Just Showing Up

Narrator: Welcome to the home of Project Dream Mastery. Here at PDM, we are challenging the status quo of what it means to follow your dreams and how to unlock the power those dreams will bring to your life. The show experience will be unscripted, authentic and transparent. So now sit back, relax and get inspired with your hosts. Lucas Johnson and Patryk Labuzek.

Lucas P. Johnson: Hello and welcome to the third episode of the Project Dream Mastery show. My name is Lucas P. Johnson based out of Charlotte, North Carolina, and I am one of the two hosts here at PDM. The other man behind the mic and also one of my best friends, business partners, co-founders of PDM and co-host for the PDM show, Patryk Labuzek. Can I mention he is based out of Ireland and was born in Poland. How cool is that? With that said, Paddy, how are you? How are you doing? You ready for the third episode, man?

Patryk Labuzek: I am so ready, there's so much great content, from the last two episodes were great. This one's going to be very deep. I have a feeling just the subject itself. I cannot wait to get started.

Lucas P. Johnson: Paddy, the best part about the show is it is completely unscripted and most of the stuff that we bring up it's just thoughts and we bring out these, these thoughts just come out of nowhere. That's what we put on the show. We put the stuff that we think is going to be valuable to you, but also the memories and the things that have helped us become who we are. I think that's really essential to how we have become the follower of our own dreams and how we help defy our own expectations. There's so much of this show and there's so much love that we put into it and so much heart. As you've seen in the last two, Paddy and I have been really just putting it out there for you and that's what we want on the show. We want to be authentic with you.

Lucas P. Johnson: Paddy, it's great to hear that you're pumped for this show because I am as well. I think it's going to be deep and it's going to bring us into our topic for the show today. We will be focusing on half the battle is just showing up. If you've made it this far, you've already made it the show. You showed up, you are here, you are ready for the next episode in Project Dream Mastery, it's going to be epic. Paddy, as I have done in the last two episodes, I like to ask you, what do you think that this topic is focusing on? What does it mean to you?

Patryk Labuzek: It means going out of your comfort zones to a very large scale. We like be comfy or we like to feel comfortable in situations. We don't like talking about things that make us feel uncomfortable and it's all about focus around being comfortable. Going out of your comfort zone is very important to taking that step forward because only then can we learn, only then can we develop, only then can we meet new people and take onboard new experiences.

Lucas P. Johnson: That was deep. I think that we're already off to a great start. I knew that this show is going to, or this episode at least was going to, to go into the nitty gritty. We weren't going to go, we planned on going into the weeds. We plan on talking about some serious stuff on this one and most of the time, like I said in the last episode, it's about putting a note on the wall, on the dream topic wall.

Patryk Labuzek: The dream wall.

Lucas P. Johnson: The dream wall, it's just a white wall with the stickers on it, postcards, and my little sticky notes, but the one thing you said in the last episode too, was things are not as beautiful as you always think. I think that's really applicable to this show too, is half the battle is just showing up.

Lucas P. Johnson: Do you know how many times people, and I don't know the statistic off the top of my head, so I'm not going to go into detail here, but do you know how many times people have showed up to something and were so anxious and were so emotional just to be there. Do you know how hard it was for them to actually get there, to get to that function or that event or to get on that call or sometimes you're on a video chat like we're doing now, you know how difficult it was for those people? Sometimes in life, we give ourselves too much credit and sometimes we don't. For those people and if you're listening right now, and you're one of those folks that maybe you suffer from anxiety or maybe you have something else going on in your life, that's pushing you and not allowing you to be as comfortable as you would like. That's okay. We're here to say first off that everything happens for a reason.

Lucas P. Johnson: Going back what he said in last episode, things are not always as beautiful as you always think. I can relate. I understand, sometimes I get so, I used to give speeches back in high school. Even though I'm an extrovert and I love having a talk and having a conversation with someone in public, getting up in front of 100 people, 200 people, 300 people or so forth and I got stories that go on to that too, we'll talk about that later on in these episodes. Anxiety is real. Sometimes it feels like you're having a heart attack while you're up on stage with 300 or 400 people and you can't talk, you can't even get a lick out of your mouth, you can't say a thing. I just want to say that if you're on this and you're listening right now, I want to give you an applause because this show's going to be really great. It's going to help you hopefully understand how this relates to everyone's life. Paddy, have you ever been in a situation where you've had something like that happen?

Patryk Labuzek: Yeah, I was just thinking about that right there, Lucas, while you were talking. Honestly, I can't recall a situation where I had an anxiety attack because it's just not me. There's two sides to this. One side is before I became the person that I am now, the old Paddy would be shy. He would be a very introverted person. I wouldn't do things outside of my comfort zone. Therefore, even when you get into college and give presentations, I wasn't the one giving them, I wasn't the one talking to people because I knew I'm not great at it. I didn't want to put myself in a situation where I would be anxious. Therefore, one side of this is that I've never given myself, not the opportunity, but I've never gotten to the point where I've had to be anxious about anything.

Patryk Labuzek: And then second part is after I started traveling and learning and taking everything aboard and becoming the better version of myself, I don't get anxious about the things that even we're doing here. I would truly say I wouldn't do that now, I don't mind because I want to show who I am, the real me. If somebody doesn't like it, that's perfectly fine. I'm not going to be anxious about that. Therefore-

Lucas P. Johnson: You heard it here first folks.

Patryk Labuzek: Therefore, everything that I've learned to our experience in Australia and then China and my travels around Europe and travels in general is that it's simple. I don't care and because of that, I'm not anxious.

Lucas P. Johnson: I can relate. I don't have those issues too often. I only had them occasionally and even then I've been able to work through them. I don't really suffer from anxiety, I do occasionally, but it's mostly self-induced. I also have asthma so sometimes my breathing acts up and all of a sudden I'm like, "Oh, can't breathe, can't breathe," so that's self-imposed but I was just curious. It relates back to half the battle is showing up, but I just was curious what your thoughts were on it because I know I have some really good friends here in the States that they suffer from anxiety and growing up I wasn't really too familiar with that. I grew up in a bubble. I grew up in a small community.

Lucas P. Johnson: Yes, maybe a little bit large, maybe 50,000 folks or 60,000 folks, but it wasn't very large in comparison to some of these major cities. I never really experienced what that true anxiety felt like. Yes, I've been in front of a few hundred people. I've had the experience of being on TV. I've had that kind of stuff. Even then it was really crazy to really think about that. Paddy, you were saying how much you've changed over the years and one thing I think of is when we were vlogging in public, when we would vlog every single day when we were in Australia, when we would go out and I'd give the daily vlog and I had my co-host there, Patrick Labuzek and Eric and it was really crazy because that's something I never did, it was coming out of my comfort zone.

Patryk Labuzek: That's exactly it, Lucas, now that I'm thinking back to those outbursts of ours, being so spontaneous. Doing things that you love and sometimes we're just stupid about things that we're saying, but that was part of having fun and just having a good time. That was us going out of the comfort zone, taking out the camera, saying stupid things and people watching at us. There was newer signs that we've seen in the background with our phones that people were watching us.

Lucas P. Johnson: Especially when we were editing those.

Patryk Labuzek: Exactly, they were curious, what is going on? Those experiences, at least for me as well, the part when we started vlogging for fun, I went back to my comfort zone and pushed me out to experience new things and I've learned it shaped the person that I am currently now at this very second, which is not going to be the same person after this conversation. We're constantly evolving and it's important that we do constantly evolve. That we become better versions of ourselves and it's not something that happens from month to month. It's really, I think something that happens from minute to minute or second to second. I'm not saying that our character becomes different, but we evolve in a certain way. The thoughts that are being induced and they all affect us. Me right now is different than me after the conversation after this show.

Lucas P. Johnson: What are you saying, Paddy, you're not coming back. No, I'm kidding. Paddy and I have had some really deep chats and I think that, that's really great what you're saying. We've had so many deep chats over the last two years, that every time I talked to Patryk I have an opportunity to learn something about myself and also something about Patryk. I think really it creates a better friendship because when you can trust someone and you can really open up and have that relationship with someone where, say for example, my girlfriend, I don't have one, but if I did, maybe I was having problems with them. I feel comfortable enough to go and talk to Patryk about it and say, "Hey, man, this is what's going on." Those relationships that you build and understanding how much you change over time have really made me realize how important having a good circle is.

Lucas P. Johnson: I didn't always have a great circle. I think our circle in Australia was great. I think my circle now in the States is pretty damn good. Sometimes I don't always know, I'm still trying to figure out everything here in Charlotte because I'm new to Charlotte. I moved here in September 2019, so I'm rather new to this area. Going back to what you're saying is again going to the topic, half the battle is showing up. If you have that opportunity to change and become better from every conversation in every lesson that you learn from someone, that's just one part of showing up. Now applying that to your everyday life. That's the second part. It's crazy that I was probably two years, three years of just really not exercising. When I was in Australia with you, Paddy, I was working out what, every day? I was ...

Patryk Labuzek: Yeah, something like that.

Lucas P. Johnson: Came back for my senior year of college and university and I don't think I did anything. I went up to 270 pounds, man. I was close to, maybe a little less than that, but I was close to 270 pounds. That's the largest I've ever been in my life and for me it took a toll. I couldn't run to save my life, I couldn't play sports, I was out of breath walking up the steps. I couldn't walk to class because my feet would hurt. Then all of a sudden, my brother says something to me and this is how this topic actually came to life is I was in DC right before COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic.

Lucas P. Johnson: So that would have been, I think we declared it a pandemic here or we started taking action in March. I was there part of, end of April? Or not end of April, end of February. I was in District of Columbia, DC end of February. My brother said something about how he was training for an Ironman. For y'all that don't know an Ironman is, it's a pretty damn impressive. I don't even know the exact details to it, it's probably 100 miles swimming, biking, running, all this stuff in one. My brother says to me, he goes, "I really never wanted to do this," I go, "Why are you doing it?" "Because dude, half the battle is just showing up." You know what? I decided to go down with him and he said, "Do you want to come work out with me?"

Lucas P. Johnson: It didn't really hit me until I got down to that gym. He said, "Again, half the battle is just showing up, dude. You going to come or not? If you don't get down here, you don't put your clothes on. You're never going to do it." If you just show up and you're there. If I show up at the gym, I'm not going to just sit at the gym. I'm going to do something. I'm going to want to get on that treadmill. I'm going to want to pick up that weight and lift some weight, push that weight up, put it down, pick things up, put it down. That's what was so inspiring to me and that's what I thought could be applicable to this show is if you just show up.

Patryk Labuzek: Just to break it in there, this applies to all aspects of our lives. Analyze what you said there. I think that was part of our Australian experience which greatly shaped us in many ways. Half the battle is just showing up. Half the battle was booking a ticket, a flight to the other side of the world by yourself. Just showing up at the airport in Sydney without accommodation, plans.

Lucas P. Johnson: Talk about just Paddy...

Patryk Labuzek: Going to the beach. Meeting strangers from all around the world, USA, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Portugal, UK, you name it.

Lucas P. Johnson: Every part of the world basically.

Patryk Labuzek: You name it. That was tough.

Lucas P. Johnson: Sweden, Switzerland.

Patryk Labuzek: Sweden, Norway. All those countries. All those great countries. All those different people, different cultures colliding. Making that first step of just showing up there. Being curious to meet a lot of people. Look, good squad formed. Right? Out of just a few and we became second-rate squad.

Lucas P. Johnson: Reunions every year except 2020 because we need to control alt delete apparently, I don't know.

Patryk Labuzek: Let's agree this year doesn't exist.

Lucas P. Johnson: We were planning on going to Costa Rica this year and Paddy, it was going to be epic because we all have adult jobs now. Again, this Project Dream Mastery is something that we are really passionate about, but this is also something that is our dream. Take that for what it's worth. We still have adult jobs. We're still working and building and learning along the way. Just before we continue on with our topic, I want you to know that we are still fully employed, full time workers. This is something that we do on a side. If it ever grows to be something that we could take and run with, okay awesome, but this right now is to help you become better, learn something from it and help us learn along the way too because these conversations again, Paddy, what you were saying earlier. Every time I hear something out of your mouth is me analyzing and thinking about how that might help me in my future and how I can help you and how we can build our future.

Patryk Labuzek: Yeah, then I'm just going to relate this to our previous show, put a homework on herself. One of the homeworks that I put on myself is taking in those valuable conversations and just becoming a better version of myself. This links again, this show to the previous one.

Lucas P. Johnson: I think we're going to find, and again, this is episode three. I think we're going to find that all of these shows link to three things. Can I say them Paddy because I think you already know what they are.

Patryk Labuzek: Go ahead Lucas, you're more than welcome too.

Lucas P. Johnson: Dream big. Defy expectations, dream big and love deeply. I think those three things are going to be applicable to every episode that we put together. Do you agree Paddy?

Patryk Labuzek: Completely.

Lucas P. Johnson: These last three episodes, which isn't many, but I think those three have really come together to help us form better relationships, better friendships. They've helped us become more determined on what our future has to offer. What we have to offer. It helped us build confidence in who we are. I love myself a lot more now that I started off with just showing up. I get up every single day now and I started a nutrition plan, what I say last week? I think I started on Monday and today is Sunday. I started it about six or seven days ago, six days and I'm down five pounds. Before that I started training for a half marathon and man, every single morning I would get up and I'd say half the battle's showing and up, Lucas, put your running shoes on, stretch. Okay, if you stretch then, you're going to want to run.

Lucas P. Johnson: Then you start running and you're like, "Oh, one mile. All right, Lucas, we can be done after one mile. Plan says we got to do 30 minutes. All right, I'll do 30 minutes. Near the 30 minutes and by the time I'm done, I'm like, Lucas, you should," I'm sorry I'm talking about myself in third person, but this is me thinking through my head is, "Lucas, you've already done three miles, man. Now we should get four. You already showed up. You're already out here. You're already breaking a sweat. Why don't you do more?" Paddy, how many times have you showed up and you're like, "Wow, I can drink another beer or I can, you're already here, why don't you just have some fun? Why don't you let go?" That's just showing up. How many times has that been applicable to you?

Patryk Labuzek: More than I can count. I think it's part of our lives and all the things that are happening whether that's what you're saying, just showing up to the pub for a drink. That leads to having good time connecting with your friends and hearing their stories, their experiences, and all those crazy, crazy things at times as usual in a pub. Again, this applies to, like you mentioned fitness. I don't run myself, but I'm a martial arts instructor. It's very important for me to show up to my trainings and that's half the battle fought.

Patryk Labuzek: We do sparring and as far as I remember, maybe going five years back and part of my black belt exam was trying to survive a 25 minute round. Now, what I mean by that a 25 minute fight. That's each round takes 2 minutes. 25 times 2, you have 50 minutes that's an immense pressure on your body. It crushes you. You're exhausted. You can't walk, you can't think, well the one thing that you have to focus on is you're going to get through this. It didn't matter if you win the fight, it didn't matter if you collapsed, what mattered was coming back up. Half the battle fought was just showing up and that was important. That's what shapes all of us. Do you have anything to add to that Lucas?

Lucas P. Johnson: Yeah, one thing if you are watching the video right now, I really think this is cool is Paddy actually put up a photo behind him. Where is that? I know that's in New Zealand, that is which mountain?

Patryk Labuzek: Yeah. The thing is, I always try to create my own content and like computer scientists, right now, I'm an automation engineer, I think with numbers most of the time, but being creative from doing different things makes my heads come together and I have those great ideas because I think they're great because I love them. I'm passionate about this and one of the small, tiny projects for my blog, I decided to do was I'm trying to inspire people.

Patryk Labuzek: I'm trying to motivate them to see the world, make them realize it's not as expensive, you don't need to be a millionaire to go and see another country. It's all relatively cheap if you put your mind to it, you can do anything. I decided that part of my blog, not just writing about the experience and motivating people, is that I want to put on some of my pictures that I always use with some nice, inspiring quotes that inspire me. What you can see in the background is one of the pictures that I took, as you mentioned in New Zealand, this was in the Tongariro National Park. If you remember Lucas, we were hoping to climb a mountain until we got notified that there's avalanche warning.

Lucas P. Johnson: Also, note, Paddy and I did not have any winter clothes, okay. We were in Australia and first off, I didn't know that I was going to be there for winter. I thought I was going to be there for summer because well, I left and it was our winter, so I figured I was going to be their summer, but I ended up staying and as you can see in the background there's a lot of snow.

Lucas P. Johnson: All we had were sweatshirts and I said to Patryk I go, "Hey man, I don't think I want to do this," he goes, "Why man, I got to do this," so we were going to go do it because I wasn't going to leave him to do it by himself, that's not safe. They're saying that you need these spike things on your feet, all these snow shoes. I'm thinking, "Oh my gosh, we're so unprepared for this Paddy. We are going to die," and within five minutes we get a notification saying, "Yes, there's a potential avalanche warning. We advise that the park is going to be closing and we advise that all folks that are on the mountain to come down." All right, well there we go, that's a sign, let's go.

Patryk Labuzek: We decided to try our best and go to a ski resort which is just on the mountain that you see there. That's where the picture was taken. I really like this picture.

Lucas P. Johnson: Where's your quote?

Patryk Labuzek: What's the quote? Imagine no limitation on what you can be half or-

Lucas P. Johnson: Oh, wow. How applicable is that to what we are talking about today? Half the battle is just showing up, Paddy and I were going to hike a mountain that was possibly going to have an avalanche and I was-

Patryk Labuzek: That is because it was an alpine mountain. Not your average hill.

Lucas P. Johnson: No, and I was never really big into hiking either. Going back to this, if you're showing up and you put on this stuff and you say you're going to do it, well you're going to do it. Even in Ireland, when we did your little hill, when we were in Ireland, what was it that we hiked? It was actually pretty hard.

Patryk Labuzek: Oh, the Glendalough National Parks with the lakes.

Lucas P. Johnson: Yeah, so we hiked that and I was never, I like hiking, but I'm more into it now, now that I actually enjoy it and I'm fit. I'm not 270 pounds, I can't walk. I really enjoyed it. I want to bring it back here too, because there's a lot of great stuff right there, Paddy and I hope that if you're listening right now, you had a chance to see that Paddy was doing a humble brag there, which I told him after the last episode, "Come on, man, you got to get your stuff. You got to tell everyone because you got really amazing things to offer and there's a lot of great things." Going back it's just showing up, showing up prepared and we are never prepared for these shows. We just speak what's on our heart and what makes sense for these episodes. We hope that it's applicable to you because as we're re-listening to these, we are like, "Wow. Okay, yeah."

Patryk Labuzek: That's how difficult it was. That makes us say, we're humans. We're just like you, we have our own experiences and if this, what we're saying helps us to think about different things. It helps us see and develop then-

Lucas P. Johnson: It's going to help you.

Patryk Labuzek: We're more than sure it will help you.

Lucas P. Johnson: Yeah. There's a lot of things that we still need to talk about here and we want to go deep. Paddy, let's start to focus in on half the battle is just showing up. I know for me, I've had a lot of things and a lot of times where I've questioned where I see myself, what I want to do with my life. What I see for my future, if my girlfriend for the time is the one I want to marry, all these things. When I'm at the bar, do I want to drink another beer? These are all things I really think they could come along with this topic is if you give yourself the opportunity to really let yourself hone in on what makes you happy and really brings you to your breaking point, per se. You can find what you really want in your life.

Lucas P. Johnson: I don't know how many times I've been in a spot where I'm just like, "Hell I thought I wanted to work this particular thing, or I wanted to do that, or I wanted it to go for a run, but really I wanted to go hang out with my family." I showed up and I did that, but in reality, I need to show up for something completely different. This show is about showing up and sometimes that is not always for the thing you think it is, or it should be. One time I decided to, this is really hard for me to talk about, my Pap passed away when I was 14 or 15 and I was in my sophomore year of high school. My Pap passed away and I thought the most important thing for me was to stay and play football and stay in practice, so I didn't lose my spot.

Lucas P. Johnson: I never knew that I could leave and my coach would be completely understanding of that. That's just not something that went through my head. I've played football since I was a wee little lad and I've always been just so dedicated to it. I would always show up no matter what the, whatever it was, if I was late, I'd still show up. It really comes down to making that decision and I made the wrong one. I wasn't there for my Pap's funeral. I wasn't able to make that decision. Even when my folks said, "Oh, you need to go to this," I said, "Hey, if I leave, I'm not going to be able to secure this position or I'm not going to be able to do this or that." I don't even remember what it was, but the one thing I remember from that time Paddy, is that I didn't show up for the right thing.

Lucas P. Johnson: We don't always make the right choices, so don't get down on yourself because you're the only one that can live with that decision. You have to know that it was for the right reason. For me, I know that I made the wrong one, but let me say that I've learned from it, again going back to what you've learned, I've learned that I should have been there. I now know that I need to show up for what actually really matters. Faith, family, friends. Those are the three things that are above all. Those are the things that matter to me and what I will show up for. So Paddy, I'm going to take a step back and let you simmer and add value to anything that you would like in this particular topic because I know that was pretty deep for me, but that's the point of this show.

Patryk Labuzek: Yeah, very deep. It's difficult to add anything to that because our listeners will start to see we have very similar views on a lot of things I completely agree with every word that you said right there. What I've learned from your comment right there is that it takes courage to admit that sometimes you made the wrong move, sometimes you take that step that it's just, it's all right, but what's important to realize is that it's a learning process. Just because you did that, you made that certain move which wasn't the right one, you're not going to make the same mistake again. That's very important. Now that's crucial for each one of us whatever the situation may be to just summarize what we did and analyze whether this was the right choice, whether this was the right move, whether we should rethink certain things that we do analyze.

Lucas P. Johnson: I definitely have had a lot of time to think that one through. I hadn't really one thing in my life at that time that really mattered to me. Before that I would go to youth group all the time, I was dedicated to church and all this stuff and growing up that was just the way I lived. I had some really great friends there, but that moment where I chose a sport, something that wasn't going to be forever, over my Pap's funeral, my entire family was there by the way. I was the only one that stayed back and I stayed at my other grandparents, I believe or one of my friends, one of the two.

Lucas P. Johnson: It was epic for me to realize it's now 2020, that happened what, I don't even know, 10 years ago and I'm now just really admitting that to anyone. That's what you're getting here. Project Dream Mastery again is being authentic with you. Again, mastering your dreams and one thing I learned from that is that you have to pick the right things to show up for. Don't just show up for something because you think it's going to make you look good or it's the right thing to do.

Lucas P. Johnson: If your family member is going to the hospital to get an elective surgery and you have this other function that you priorly said you were going to attend, say for example, a black tie or a charity, something, or one of those events, event that you already had a prior commitment to. Choose the family member, choose that thing that's going to, what if something didn't go right? What if something bad happened in that elective surgery. That is what you're going to have to live with and know that you made the decision. Take it from me. It's something that I learned very, very young in my days and I've taken definitely taken an opportunity to reflect on that. I'm grateful, I'm really, really grateful for that because now I, most of the time, most of the time choose was the right thing to show up for.

Patryk Labuzek: Yeah. That's it Lucas, learning on your mistakes. It's a simple as that really. Even though it's not simple in that essence.

Lucas P. Johnson: Paddy, that's exactly it, it is not as simple in its essence. You have to really think about what matters to you. That's what I'm going to challenge you, on each of the shows, I've given you a challenge, the last one was to go out and learn something new. In today's episode, I challenge you to just show up for something, show up for something that means something to you. Show up and I know COVID-19 is occurring right now, as you're probably as you're listening as you're probably still in shelter in place, or you're slowly working your way into the real world again, but show up for the people that are there for you. Really weed out the people that aren't. Show up for the family members, the friends that have always been there for you. There's five or six people from high school, there's five or six people from college. Send them a message.

Lucas P. Johnson: Say, "Hey man, I'm grateful for you," or "Hey girl, I'm grateful to have you in my life," or just let them know that you're there for them. That right now, especially in these times, can be very powerful and have such an impact on someone's life. Again, pivoting back to one of the other lessons that you learned in our last lesson is things are not always as beautiful as you think they are. Shoot those people a message, that's my challenge to you, shoot them a message. Say, "Hey, just checking in on you, how are you?" See how much of an impact that'll have, because even though it may not have an impact on you necessarily, it's going to have a tremendous impact on those people around you. Paddy, I think that probably a good point to wrap up.

Patryk Labuzek: That's a great one to wrap up, yeah. I agree.

Lucas P. Johnson: crosstalk Do you have anything else last-

Patryk Labuzek: I don't think we have anything to add at this stage. Not that I can think of off the top of my head right now.

Lucas P. Johnson: All right, Paddy, I think that there's going to be a lot of great content here coming up. Paddy's got some really great ideas for show topics here. Paddy will be taking over as the host for those shows and it's going to be super exciting to see what's on his mind and what he has in his, back there that's simmering and brewing and really wants you to have the opportunity to take away and learn from Project Dream Mastery. With that, I'm going to wrap up the show and just talk about what we have discussed for today. First off, half the battle is just showing up. Going back to the last lesson, you stop learning because no one is telling you that you have homework, go out and learn, do something, make something of every situation.

Lucas P. Johnson: Third, things are not as beautiful as you always think. Don't judge someone before you give them the opportunity to express who they are and understand their story. Maybe they're just showing up. Maybe they have something that's going on in their life that's making impact on their day to day and they're just happy to be there right now because someone told them they had to be there. They showed up because someone said, "you have to be here." Third or fourth, I think we're in four, make sure that you show up for the right thing, learn from your previous mistakes to make the best possible future for yourself and not have to live with the regret of not being there for someone that you actually care about. Last but not least, please go take the challenge today and make sure that you are following up with someone that matters to you.

Lucas P. Johnson: Those five or six people from high school, those five or six people from college or those five or six people from work that really have made an impact on your life. Follow up with them right now because COVID-19 is really playing a toll on everyone in the shelter in place and staying at home. Just go out and check on them. Showing up for them through a message could really make an impact on their life. With that said, make sure that you go and you subscribe to our shows so that you have instant access to our next episodes and beyond because we have some epic content here at Project Dream Mastery. We challenge you to become the best version you can be defy expectations, dream big, love deeply and with that said, Paddy, any last words for our amazing listeners?

Patryk Labuzek: Keep it real.

Lucas P. Johnson: Keep it real. You heard it here first folks. All right. With that said, we look forward to seeing you in the next episode. Thank you.