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this man made me get up on the toughest
day he just said let's do leg day
at six in the morning yeah
it's rough today yeah what about getting
up this morning getting up was rough
yeah i i told you i go through cycles
where it's like
it'll be really easy to get up at like 4
45
5 a.m crush a workout but i've been in a
cycle now where still get up at what we
got up at what five i got to like 5 15
today yeah i got up right around 5 a.m
had some coffee hit the gym at six
schedule's a little different but still
it's uh
yeah it's not fun and it's not easy but
see what i mean like put that in the
edit like maybe just
yeah
right i never thought i would
ever
ever have a car in new york city
yeah you used to always be like
these people that have cars in the city
why would you ever have a car here i
used to not ride the subway because i
wanted to save money
on the multi subway pass i'd bike
everywhere
and
now i have a car in the city it's kind
of weird but
yeah
like driving to the gym in a car is
weird yes biking or walking or whatever
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my primary motivation for going into
this workout is just to show up and get
it done there are certain days where the
motivation is just not there and for me
that happens when i've been doing
something for a long period of time
i like to see life as buckets so you
have you know your fitness bucket your
well-being your friendships right now my
fitness bucket is just on like
maintain mode
so in my mind getting any workout is
better than no workout and this morning
was just getting in a workout just to
move greatness happens on the days when
you show up even if you don't want to be
there
one thing i do know is that i have never
regretted waking up the crack of dawn to
get a sweat in
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so you said before that theo has
literally saved your life what do you
mean by that
yeah i mentioned that before in videos
that theo
has saved my life and i mean that in the
literal sense of the word not even like
a figuratively but like theo
i was getting sober and theo was uh
my reason for getting up in the morning
like you knew you had that
responsibility with owning a dog you
couldn't let him down so yeah theo was
the reason
one of the main reasons how i got sober
was taking care of theo
yeah
you want to keep that in heavy stuff
yeah keep it in
theo really dictates the morning routine
like i'll wake up and get a workout but
then it's it's theo feeding theo
taking him on his walk i like to walk
him for 30 minutes
if i can in the morning maybe even a
little more play with him run with him
in the park go fetch the morning walk
with theo is my way to stay grounded it
really is because it's every morning i
know a lot of people have dog walkers i
have a dog walker occasionally for when
i just can't make it but i try to walk
for you
morning afternoon evening yeah it's a
good day fdo poops
so it just gives me that sense of
purpose and that sense of grounding
that's what you means to me
i guess i'm a father in that sense
not like a real dad yet
so many emails what you're seeing in
this video is not a very glamorous
day it's very much so a typical day in
the life i mean you saw it it's a huge
contrast to like my previous day in the
life videos where
it was super glamorized and it was like
a cheesy voice over and it was stuff
that like
it was just very social media 2017
whereas i feel like after the pandemic
it just
everyone showed up so bad where it's
like okay let's just see something
real okay
phone phone you really can't tell much
from social media what my day to day is
like and that's what i wanted to make
this video about because i am going
through one of the most difficult for me
periods in my life as far as growing and
kind of
just pushing my level of being
comfortable and there's a quote that
goes discomfort is the admissions ticket
for a meaningful life
and right now i am
i am so uncomfortable but in like the
best way where i i have to grow i got
very comfortable doing youtube school i
get nervous going to school
like you saw how nervous i got in the
apartment yeah yeah but like yeah and if
you're prepared then you don't really
have anything to be nervous about and
like i'm fairly prepared for today i'm
doing something now that i've wanted to
do since i was like
10 years old
like a kid like very very young i was 20
24 23 when i moved here i'm 32 now so it
goes fast so if you want to do something
you got to do it i'm in the middle of a
two-year conservatory training program
it's 40 hours a week and it is using a
completely different muscle of the brain
and the heart and the gut that i've ever
used before
and it's it's been a lot and even just
the the location i'm studying out in
brooklyn which is super industrial looks
like in the great gatsby when they're
driving to manhattan and they're going
through like the soot and the smoke and
all the industry it's just a very it's a
very good environment to show up and
just put in the work there's lots of
neuroplasticity happening with the type
of training i'm doing in brooklyn but
more on that to come typically in these
days i get them class i rush home try to
make some food
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and eat something at home versus going
out and ordering takeout and all that uh
spending time with the dog and then it's
switching gears it's going from
something where in class it's a very
just real and authentic and truthful
pursuit and youtube i
found has been
i mean this is the honest truth
sometimes it's very just surface level 4
300 square feet three bedroom three and
a half bathroom 10 rooms just under 17
million dollars
yeah switching
gears here now so it's after class and
today's one of those days where uh i'm
in youtuber mode and by youtube remote i
mean like property tour mode so i love
real estate i love architecture and
design but sometimes the home tours get
very just
bland you know not to say the real
estate videos are not truthful they're
just much much more
fabricated where i'm more of like a host
than myself i definitely get creative
fulfillment for making the the real
estate tours because i'm directing them
i'm producing them scripting them
sometimes editing them nowadays i don't
film them anymore but it's not satiating
that creative need that i've in class
i'm harboring something much deeper and
much more richer and live with an
emotional life and youtube i'm trying to
figure out how to make these videos
i don't know just more
more
yeah yeah more more eric connor i feel
like a lot of people don't actually know
like who i am and what i'm about so
hopefully this video helps a little bit
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at the end of the day my go-to thing to
just kind of shed away all the stress of
the day is to go down to the hudson
river and just stare at the water and
stare at the skyline
just to go down there and usually be
alone there's not many people especially
this time of year it's a little cold but
just look at the city and kind of
reflect on the day and just uh you know
fill my bucket up new york city is new
york city it's such a vibrant place and
i think people who live here you can get
very complacent and be like oh it's just
new york but it's freaking new york city
like look at that view i think as humans
we are really really good at normalizing
things that social process which our
ideas and those actions even where we
live
they can be seen as quite normal and
they can be taken for granted in
everyday life and this view reminds me
of that that i'm in new york city and i
cannot take that for granted and
hopefully this video was a better look
at what a an actual day is like for me
living in new york city in 2022
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