Parker Yablon: What's up, Elevationation? We're back on the sticks today. It's beautiful. It's getting warm. Sam, what's going on, man? How we livin'?

Sam Panitch: What's up, Parker? We're good, man. ⁓ Life is good, but I woke up on the wrong side of the bed today and I've just been in a pissy mood and there's nothing wrong. No, I mean, I know why.

Parker Yablon: Is it a Monday thing or, ⁓ you know? You know why.

Sam Panitch: I didn't get great sleep so I skipped the boxing gym this morning and I only got a 30 minute lift in and it put me in a bad mood. So I'm in a bad mood.

Parker Yablon: but you still got the 30 minute lift in. So what's the problem?

Sam Panitch: Yeah, but like it wasn't like I didn't sweat, you know, like I just went down there and did a little something something I did meditate. It's so funny, dude. Like for most people, this would be a productive morning. 30 minute workout meditated, did my morning affirmations. But it's still like I still just isn't a bad mood.

Parker Yablon: So you did your affirmations too.

Sam Panitch: Yeah, yeah, I did. I did all that stuff. I just woke up. I woke up feeling in a funk. I woke up a little funky. And I think that happens to a lot of people. And sometimes we let it spiral us. And it's been a busy day, had a lot of meetings back and forth had some people cancel on us and move meetings around which, you know, I love having my calendar organized and ready to go. And so I think all of those things combined just put me in a bad energy space and a bad mindset. So going on a run after work. It's 65 and sunny in DC. I just did legs at the gym on Saturday or Sunday or whatever. And I'm very sore, but we're gonna, we're gonna move. We're gonna groove.

Parker Yablon: You're going to move, you're going to groove. So I have a question then, like. Do you think you set yourself up for this, this uneasiness, this unfulfillment, maybe this funkiness that you're feeling now because you have set such a high expectation for how you're gonna make your mornings great? What are they called? The miracle morning, right? You have toned it down from the craziness of what it used to be, but even now it's to your point. You said that you...

Sam Panitch: Hmm. Mmm.

Parker Yablon: Expect that you're gonna wake up on a Monday morning get out of bed. Hopefully after a good night's sleep Make your way to the boxing gym get some good Sweats in meet hang out with some people catch up then get back to your place do some meditation and Affirmations make yourself a breakfast. Maybe have a coffee, right? There's all these different things and so my question for you is Today you still did a pretty healthy, meaningful routine that many would say, Sam, dude, you went to the gym. You got your meditation. You got your affirmation. What are you complaining about? So my question to you is, have you set yourself up almost for failure because you set the bar so high for yourself?

Sam Panitch: Hmm. I don't know. That's a good question. I don't I think ⁓ even if I got all those things, I still would have probably felt a little bit in a funk. Just ⁓ I think waking up on the wrong side of the bed, right is the snowball effect of some things happening, maybe not in your favor. Nothing bad happened to me this week. Nothing bad happened to me this weekend. I had a great weekend. ⁓ but I think maybe some small things irritated me and then I let those continue to irritate me. And then I combined that with a little bit of lack of sleep and then I got disappointed in myself. And then it's a slippery slope, man. Then you start to spiral a little bit. Like Parker, it's a beautiful day outside. We get to talk elevationation. Work is great. Life is great. I'm healthy. I'm happy. Had a great weekend. It's a Monday. We can conquer the real world. I got a really nice, strong iced coffee cooking.

Parker Yablon: It's pretty nice.

Sam Panitch: I bought some new suits this weekend that I probably didn't need to buy, but I did. And yet sometimes you just wake up and one thing irritates you and then something maybe that wouldn't have irritated you just irritates you again. That's, think, the difference between waking up on the wrong side of the bed and not. The little things continue to add up because you notice them and you focus on them. We had a podcast guest who woke up sick, rescheduled the podcast. Really not a big deal.

Parker Yablon: Good for you

Sam Panitch: happens all the time. But for some reason, it kind of made me annoyed. Truly, not a big deal. In fact, it frees up my Monday night to go on a run. But it annoyed me because then I had to figure out when are we going to reschedule them? What are we going to do? So I don't know if you ever get into those mindsets where like every little thing that someone does or says or happens kind of pisses you off a little bit. But that's been my day today.

Parker Yablon: I just don't care as much as you. I just don't. I'm like, the guy rescheduled it, I'm like, all right, well, I have 30 more minutes or an hour to do something else.

Sam Panitch: It's a good mentality. But you woke up on the right side of the bed. I would say normally that doesn't, that doesn't irritate me, but I've seen you without caffeine in your system, maybe a little grumpy or tired from a flight and like, rightly so, you're more irritable. Right? I think it's ⁓ our tolerance shifts of irritability, you know?

Parker Yablon: That's true. I did. I looked out when I Yeah I, it makes sense. I see what you're saying. ⁓ you know, it's funny. I think about it. It's like, okay, so I don't think you're setting yourself up for failure by setting good habits and a good routine for the morning. It just so happened you didn't get a good night's sleep or even if you got a good night's sleep, you know, we all had wake up to your point on the wrong side of the bed and have irritable moments. The thing that I'm thinking about now is, okay, so you have this irritable moment. But let's say something really good happened an hour ago or 30 minutes ago, something that wasn't normal to your normal day to day, like not like a meeting going well, not you completing ⁓ an email or a task that you had to do. Like something just so happened, like that came through that was like, wow, maybe it was a new gig. Maybe it was a really cool guest or someone wanted to meet you.

Sam Panitch: Mm-hmm.

Parker Yablon: or you got a cool opportunity or you got invited somewhere cool, like a wizard game tonight. If that happened, I really think you wouldn't be as irritable as you would now. Your whole mindset, your whole perspective just changes like that. And so what I'm getting at to the point is you could be having such a great day like I'm having, and it could take one thing to just throw you off course, or you could be having a really crappy day and then the universe might send you something, something might happen. And then boom, you're like, ⁓ my God. I feel great now, I'm excited. And maybe that's gonna be the run for you. But oftentimes what I'm talking about in the way that something good happens, that you're not controlling. How can we control those things more? And I think to your point is you realize that you're irritable. So you have to go for a run. I would have went for a run already. I would have.

Sam Panitch: Interesting. Well, you make me laugh when you say you were gonna go for a run in the middle of the workday. But that brings up a whole nother tick tock tick tock trend that you've been going viral for. So I'll save that for the end.

Parker Yablon: I'm curious. Yeah. Why? What? What's the problem with that?

Sam Panitch: There's no problem with that. just think for most people, that's very unrealistic.

Parker Yablon: If you work from home, it's much more realistic than if you work in an office. How about that?

Sam Panitch: True, ⁓ would just, and listen, I agree with you. Like if you have a gap in your calendar and you can go clear your head and go for it. I just think a lot of people don't have an hour gap in their calendar to go run in the middle of a work day. ⁓ So I have to wait till the end of the day. But to your point where you're going with this, which I love, that I typically do is when I do wake up on the wrong side of the bed. I figure out how to artificially create those moments to reshift my energy, right? And so typically going to the boxing gym is one of those. I get to get out my stress, get out my anger. And the lift just wasn't enough today. And a couple things spiraled, right? Like when you have back to back to back meetings. I even had therapy today, Parker. My therapist was like, you seem down today. You seem glum today. What's going on? I couldn't give her, know, therapists want like the real answer. I couldn't give her a real answer. I just said I woke up on the wrong side of the bed. I'm feeling a little tired, feeling a little glum. There wasn't some big deep rooted thing I think that was bothering me. was just sometimes you're not feeling it and that's okay.

Parker Yablon: So you'll take an hour to talk to your therapist during the day, but you wouldn't take 30 minutes to go for a run when in reality, both of them are doing exactly kind of the same thing as helping you feel better.

Sam Panitch: Mm-hmm. Yeah, I think I'm not saying I wouldn't go for a run. I'm saying I think one is more socially acceptable to block your calendar for probably than another. Right. Like I have a doctor's appointment every two weeks. The doctor appointments virtual because it's my therapist. But I have it blocked and it says I'm out of office for 45 minutes every two weeks. Like.

Parker Yablon: It's funny you say that. Yeah. It's socially acceptable because you have a doctor's appointment, which is like...

Sam Panitch: And even that dude, like I actually don't know how socially acceptable it is, right? Like I think it's okay.

Parker Yablon: I think it is. of all, doctors are only open from 9 to 5 really too.

Sam Panitch: True, yeah true, that's a good point. I think it's cool, I think our company's cool with it. I haven't had anyone give me pushback, but like, no one's ever really asked either, you know?

Parker Yablon: I think people want you to take care of you. And to be honest with you, if I was your manager and you told me you were waking up on the wrong side of the bed and you have 30 minutes open or 45 minutes open, I'd be like, Sam, like, what do like to do? How do you, how do you de-stress? Oh, I go for a run. You know, put your computer down right now. Go for a run. De-stress. Come back. Cause I want you to be Sam. I want you to be a hundred percent Sam. If, if we're trying to do something together, make major, you know, elevation happen, right? What,

Sam Panitch: Yeah. Yeah. Hmm. Yeah. Yeah.

Parker Yablon: What's the difference if Sam goes for a run for 45 minutes or not? Like what's actually getting done in that moment? I'd rather have Sam at 100 % the rest of the day than have Sam half percent or half of Sam for the whole day. Do you see what I mean? It's kind of interesting. It brings up a point. I don't know if you're watching the pit on HBO. Do you know what it is? Yeah, I would do not watch the show, but Elevationation, if you have seen the pit.

Sam Panitch: No, can't do blood. I do know what it is, but I can't do blood. throw up.

Parker Yablon: JJ and I are watching it and we love it, although JJ watches literally half the show because there's so much blood. And to be honest with you, I'm kind of the same way. But the most recent episode, one of the, there's so many different names. I think she was an intern, first year intern. You know, the pit, every episode's an hour and it's on episode 12. So she's been there for 12 hours. She's like, my shift is ending. And when right on the dot, she was like to the other doctor that,

Sam Panitch: Yeah, ugh.

Parker Yablon: was there, she's like, I'm leaving. And the doctor's like, wait, what? Why would you leave? Like, you can't leave. Like we have so much more to do. And she's like, my shift is over. And they're like, well, people are expected that they go beyond their shift and finish what's done. And she's like, that's what you get wrong is that I care about my wellbeing and I care about my boundaries. I'm going to set those boundaries really straight because none of you have set boundaries and you all as a result are struggling.

Sam Panitch: Hmm.

Parker Yablon: with your own mental health and your own ability to be your 100%. She said it out, she walked out the door and then another doctor walked in. Yeah, and it was a cool perspective.

Sam Panitch: Damn. I'm glad you brought that up. That's a great example. Because you know what we often joke about in our world, Parker? We're not saving lives, right? It's not brain surgery. I don't know if you say that. I say that. Yeah, no, exactly. We're not saving lives. We're making decks. We're speaking across the country to different camps. We're podcasting. We're whatever it may be.

Parker Yablon: They are, at least, well, fake.

Sam Panitch: And so to internalize that and be anything but waking up on the right side of the bed is probably the wrong thing to do. So I appreciate that perspective. think she's got it spot on. And Parker, I give you credit. I think you're a great manager for empowering your people to be able to take care of themselves, We need more of you in the world.

Parker Yablon: I just don't understand why people wouldn't want that for their people. You would like, why would I want someone who's great to be 50 to 80 % of their greatness? I want them to be at their best for most of the day, not none of the day. ⁓

Sam Panitch: I hear you 100 %

Parker Yablon: It's a good perspective. Sam woke up on the wrong side of the bed, but maybe, just maybe by the end of the day, he will go to bed on the right side of the bed. And then tomorrow he's going to wake up feeling great and ready to make tomorrow better than today.

Sam Panitch: Mm. I'm ready for it. All right, Elevationation, don't be grumpy like me. I'm actually fine. We're good. I'm gonna go for a run. Actually, the coffee's helping a lot. Until next week, peace.