In this episode, Phil talks about how important it is to always try to be the best version of yourself. He says that people shouldn't just accept things as they are, especially if they're not happy. Phil encourages everyone to work hard to improve their lives, whether it's by getting fit, doing better in business, or just being more positive. He believes that by pushing ourselves and not being afraid of hard work and challenges, we can inspire others and make a big difference in the world. This episode is all about not giving up, aiming high, and not being okay with settling for mediocrity.

Welcome to The Phil Bohol Show, hosted by USMC veteran, mindset coach, sales expert, self-made entrepreneur, husband, and father, Phil Bohol. On this podcast, we don't just offer strategies — we offer a war cry, a call to arms, a challenge to rise, to break free from the shackles of mediocrity. You’ll learn the raw truth on how to break your limitations, scale your business to 7-figures, and level up every area of your life. Together, we won't just face challenges. We will crush them. Relentlessly.


Timestamps:

(00:59 ) - A Call to Action Against Complacency

(04:03 ) - How Your Unlived Potential Affects Those Around You

(08:16 ) - How Suffering Shapes the Strongest Leaders

(09:47 ) - The High Cost of Settling

(12:48 ) - Why Not All Advice is Equal

(14:47 ) - The Daily Commitment to Growth


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Transcription:

[00:00:00 ] Imagine if you hear the calling and instead of leaning into it, stepping forward to find that version of you, you're just like, “It's going to be somebody else. If it's not me, it'll be somebody else. Somebody else will take that spot.” 

The thing that you don't realize is the person that might take that spot might not come for another generation or two.

[00:00:30 ] What's going on you guys? 

It's Phil Bohol and welcome to the Phil Bohol Show, where we have real talk about family, fitness, finance, and everything that would hold you back from leveling up in every area of your life. 

And more importantly, how I personally got through them. 

Everybody else in this world wants to bullsh*t you.

I'm here to give you the truth.

[00:01:00 ] I will never understand why people are okay with settling for where they're at in their life. 

If you're not happy in your life, you have to know that you don't have to just say, “This is my life.”

You don't have to just say, “This is where I'm at. This is where I'm going to be. This is it.” 

If you don't have the body that you want, you don't have to settle for that body.

If you're like, “Damn, I don't look good.” 

[00:01:30 ] You can actually get after it, go to the gym and get right. 

If you don't like your mentality, because you're always in a negative state, you can actually drop all of the vices, the drinking, the smoking, the drugs, all of the things that you're doing that keeps your mentality in such a dark place.

You can drop all of that and start like filling yourself up with time and nature, going to the gym, reading, learning, experiencing life. 

You can choose to do that. 

If you're not happy with your financials, you can go after getting a promotion. 

[00:02:00 ] You can build your business even more. 

You can literally do anything right now to change your life.

But there's like this weird feeling in the world that I get. 

I sense that in the world, everybody's just complacent. 

I don't know if it's inflation, I don't know if it's excuses because of a global shutdown and the aftermath of it. 

I don't know if people are just now conditioned to just settle for the life that they have or the life that they feel like they've been given.

[00:02:30 ] What happened to the times where people were like, “Hmm, I want more from life. I want to see what I'm capable of. I want to see how high I can go. I want to see where I can really take this life and actually get after it.”

There's so many people that look the part, you know? 

They really do look the part they post themselves on social media.

Like they got it going on, but you can just hear it in them. 

[00:03:00 ] You can sense it in them that there's like this, this longing to want to be something more. 

There's like a passiveness to how they speak and you're just like, “Damn, like. You look the part, but I can tell like inside of you there's a weakness.”

Why? 

I don't know why people live with that weakness. 

I don't know why people are like waking up every single day and they're like, “You know what? I stay in decent shape. I have an okay job. My business is doing all right. I can't complain. I think this is it.” 

[00:03:30 ] If you're at a position where you're just living life, where you're just like, “Meh, you know, it could be worse. I can't complain, I'm doing better now.” 

But you know, deep down, you deserve more, you deserve to have more, and you don't get after it.

You're what's wrong with the world. 

[00:04:00 ] What happened to the times where people were really pushing themselves to be the best in the game for themselves, so that way it can show everybody else what's possible. 

I think that people are too selfish nowadays. 

I think people are too afraid to put themselves out there because it's actually really easy right now to separate yourself from the pack. 

What I mean by that is it's very easy for somebody to like to step outside of the crowd and all eyes are now on you.

And I think a lot of people are just afraid of the spotlight. 

[00:04:30 ] I think a lot of people are just afraid of being seen because there's a sense of judgment that will come. 

And that judgment might come from self, might come from family, might come from loved ones. 

It might come from your spouse and it definitely will be coming from all of these random strangers online and in the world.

But what happens to the people when they don't have examples that they can follow? 

When they can't see somebody level up in every area of their life throughout time to serve as inspiration? 

Think about your life. 

[00:05:00 ] Have you ever had somebody in your life whether it was like a movie, whether it was like a cartoon character? 

I don't know, like back in the day, I used to look up to people in Dragon Ball Z.

I'd be like, “Damn! Imagine if we could go Super Saiyan! Imagine if we could do all that stuff! Imagine if we could just be jacked all the time, and like, just look at that aesthetic!” 

Something to look up to. 

Maybe they were like, eventually you're like, “Oh look, people in the military! Those guys look awesome. They're so badass, like carrying their systems and just looking strong as f*ck. I want to be like them one day.” 

[00:05:30 ] Or being an entrepreneur and looking up to entrepreneurs and being like, “Damn, they changed the game. They have a beautiful life. They're giving an awesome life to their family. Like, look at what they're doing. They're speaking on stage. They're doing all this stuff. I want to do that.” 

Can you imagine what would have happened if you didn't have any of those examples? 

If like, nothing existed that inspired you to know what was possible. 

You see what I'm saying? 

And do you see how selfish it is for you to know that you have something inside of you that is great.

It has the potential to be great, but you have to cultivate it.

You have to nurture it. 

[00:06:00 ] And you're choosing not to, because you're just like, I'm going to settle. 

I'm going to be good. 

I kind of looked the part right now. 

I can't complain. 

I don't want to risk any more because I'm like, “I got here.” 

Ah, man, just think about how much you're really lying to yourself.

It's a shame. 

It's a shame that you don't believe that you can do more. 

You can have more than that. 

You can be more. 

[00:06:30 ] It's a shame because there's somebody that's probably looking up to you right now that you don't even realize that's like, “Damn, I wonder if they're going to go after it. I wonder if they're going to take the big leap. I wonder if they're going to do the thing that every one of us from where we're from, we're afraid of, but this person, they have the potential.”

Imagining like, you have people, cause there are people right now, that are looking up to you and they're like, they're waiting for you, they're just like, alright, are you gonna make the move?

You gonna do the thing? 

 

Because you know that we're not gonna do it. 

But if we see you do it might help us break through in our belief. 

[00:07:00 ] And then imagine if you don't deliver that. 

Imagine if you hear the calling and instead of leaning into it, stepping forward to find that version of you, you're just like, “It's going to be somebody e