What's going on everyone? This is Steve Larsen and you're listening to Secret MLM Hacks Radio. Oh yeah. Here's the real mystery, how do real MLMers like us who didn't cheat and only bug family members and friends, who want to grow a profitable home business, how do we recruit A players into our downlines and create extra incomes, yet, still have plenty of time for the rest of our lives? That's the blaring question and this podcast will give you the answer. My name is Steve Larsen and welcome to Secret MLM Hacks Radio. Hey, how you guys doing? Hope life's going well for you. Hope you are living it on purpose and being loud and in charge and taking command of your life. Hey, I grew up in Littleton, Colorado. It's right outside Denver.
It's kind of sandwiched between the city and the mountains. It's kind of nice because you had the best of both worlds. You have the city on one side, but then also the mountains on the other side. What was really nice about that is that we would go kind of sneak away sometimes in the weekends or even weeks at a time we go backpacking. I know we talked about backpacking a little bit on a previous episode, but I learned to love it. It's not that I ever really hated it in fact, but I actually learned to really like it. I really enjoy it. The only reason I bring it up is because recently I was talking to my dad and we were thinking like, "Man, we should go on another huge backpacking trip."
Another one weeker at least or something big, something crazy, something which is challenging and hard. I actually learned to like those kinds of things a lot of the times through backpacking. The crazy things that we would do outside and stuff. I remember there's this one trip we'd put these snow pants on and we are way above tree line. Actually I think I talked about this one before maybe. Anyways, this was a three and a half week backpacking trip. Three and a half weeks and we were way, way above tree line. There's no trees there. Oxygen's really, really low. Super fun. Right? I mean some people listening to this might be thinking, "Steven, you're freaking crazy," but really it's so fun. There's a rush all the time.
You're packing all your food in and out. I mean everything you have to survive is on your back and you're way, way in the back. It even takes a permit because you're so far in the back country just to keep you safe if you favor to get life lighted or stuff like this. I love that stuff. Super fun. I'm not in the shape as I was when I was doing all this stuff, but I remember this one trip we were on. We brought snow pants with us even though it was like July, August. We brought snow pants because way above the tree lines was all the snow. You'd get up there and the wind's blowing and you're sucking wind extra hard because the oxygen's low. It was really, really awesome. We got up to this certain spot where there's this big bowl.
Massive bowl. Now when you say bowl, really that's like this big, massive, huge multi mile swoop from one peak to the next. We're not talking like a little bowl. I mean this is huge, right? It was packed with snow. Very steep. You could stand, reach out and just put your arms straight out and you'd be touching the side of the mountain. Like that kind of steep peak if you can visualize that. What we would do is we had ice axes with us and we needed the ice axes to get up to the top of the crest of this mountain. It's basically a cliff that you climb. We used ice axes to get up it. It was really fun. We'd practice with these ice axes, wrap them around our arms and such. We put these snow pants on and we would go hauling down. We'd sit down and we'd leave our packs and stuff up at the top.
Was it a little stupid? Sure, but this was totally like guy fun. I feel like every guy should go through something like this. We'd sit at the top of this bowl and with this ice ax just start hauling. We'd leave the ice ax. We'd kind of hold it to our chest and lean back. We're wearing snow pants and here's this almost piece of ice and you just go flying down I mean as fast as you can possibly imagine. You pick up speed so quick. You're basically control falling down a cliff. I mean it was so fun. When you're ready to stop, you would just roll over really hard and smack the ice and put all of your weight into the hook and you'd stop in like two inches. It was super fast. It's kind of extreme. I remember thinking like how ridiculous that was.
We went on to backpacking in other areas. Especially when we would climb up to that area, I mean just sucking wind like crazy. You're like breathing super hard. Your lungs are like beating super, super hard. You're trying to get more oxygen inside your body than it can get. It's really common to get altitude sickness with this. I promise there's a point with this whole story and everything, but it's interesting because even while we were going down ... That's called clausading on the snow pants when you're shooting down at the ice ax. When we were clausading or when we were hiking up the sides or whatever it was, I was always shocked at how much technique there was to breathing. Just breathing. That one thing alone changed the entire experience for myself or the other people.
If they didn't do correct breathing or if they didn't do things to help their bodies acclimate either beforehand or in the middle of the hike or whatever it was, a lot of times they'd get altitude sickness which can lead and hallucinations. It actually can get quite serious. Just that simple thing, breathing technique. What we would do is while we were hiking up, we would exhale like we were a freight train. It sounded so stupid. I'm sure it scared all the animals away and maybe kept us safe in some areas. There was moose and bear and mountain lions and stuff all around us. It was really fun. You just kind of like pierce your lips and go ... Every single exhale super, super hard. At first, it was very painful on the lungs to do that because you're stretching the lungs.
You're putting more force on the lungs than the altitude that you're currently at. Does that make sense? Your lungs thought that you're at a higher altitude than you actually were at because of that strategy. It would make your body work harder and it would really hurt at first because your lungs were already hurting, but eventually what would happen was it would become so routine and your body would create more red blood cells. You would actually soak in more oxygen as you'd go up. Now I realize I've been telling the story for six minutes now. The whole point of this is that just that one simple technique is I mean in some cases life changing. Your body would handle it better. Your body actually would take in water when you drink it rather than just get rid of it.
Just because you were breathing correctly, so many good things were happening in the rest of the body and the mind. You're able to keep clear of your mind and keep pushing forward even when it's hard. Eventually the burn would leave and you would acclimate. It's the craziest things. Now Steven, oh my gosh, this is Secret MLM Hacks Radio. What does this have to do with anything? It has everything to do with everything. Okay? A lot of people what I've noticed is they know the right answer on what it takes to be successful in MLM. Right now. Right now. If you were to grab a piece of paper ... In fact, yeah, we'll do it.
Go grab a piece of paper right now, a pen, whatever is near you and pause and just write down the one thing that you know you need to be doing to be successful in MLM, but you're not doing it. What is it? What is it? Because most the time you know what it is and most of the time it's the thing that we are least looking forward to doing. The biggest thing we're supposed to be doing is usually the thing that ac...
