SUMMARY

Do you ever feel like you’re living a double life — saying you want one thing, but constantly choosing another? In this powerful episode of Performance Tune Up, Joey Klein shares one of the most clarifying principles you can apply to your life: in every moment, you’re either aligned with your vision… or you’re not.

If you’re ready to stop drifting, stop rationalizing, and start living with complete alignment, this episode will help you get honest, focused, and powerful.

• “Every choice you make is either aligned with your vision — or it isn’t. There is no middle ground.”
• “There are no small choices. Every action strengthens a pathway — either toward your future or your past.”
• “The person you want to become thinks, feels, and acts differently than you do now. Alignment is choosing that version of yourself — today.”
• If you want to eliminate internal conflict, collapse confusion, and live fully as the person aligned with your highest vision, this episode offers a powerful blueprint.
• Watch the full training for the complete experience.

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 Full Transcript:

[The following is the full transcript of this episode of Joey’s Performance Tune Up With Joey Klein. Please note that this episode, like all episodes, features Joey speaking unscripted and unedited. This video is captured in one take.]

Are you tired of feeling like you're living a double life, Saying you want one thing, but constantly doing another, claiming certain values but acting in ways that contradict them? Today, I want to share the most clarifying principle I've ever encountered. In every moment, in every choice, you're either aligned with who you want to become and what you want to create, or you're not.

There's no middle ground. I'm Joey Klein, and this binary thinking has revolutionized how I approach every decision, every interaction, every moment of, my life. It's eliminated the confusion, the internal conflict, and the slow drift away from my vision that used to characterize my experience.

Here's what I mean. Every emotion you feel, every thought you think, every word you speak, every action you take is either moving you toward your vision or away from it. You can't be neutral. You can't be sort of aligned. You're either on the path or you're off it.

Make sense? Most people live in the gray area. They have a vision for their health, but they eat poorly "just this once". They want to build wealth, but they make financial decisions based on fear. They desire loving relationships, but they respond to conflict with anger and defensiveness.

They tell themselves these misalignments are small, temporary, or justified by circumstances. But here's the truth. There are no small choices.

Every decision either reinforces the neural pathways that support your vision or strengthens the patterns that sabotage it. Let me give you an example from my own life. I have a vision of being someone who shows up with excellence in all things. This means in every interaction, whether it's a conversation with my partner, a session with the client, or even how I do the dishes, I ask myself, is how, I'm showing up right now aligned with excellence?

If I'm phoning it in, being distracted, or giving less than my best, I'm not aligned. It doesn't matter if it's a small thing or if no one will notice. I'm either being the person who embodies excellence or I'm being someone else.

might sound exhausting or like perfectionism, but it's actually liberating. It eliminates the mental energy wasted on rationalizing and internal conflict. You know exactly what to do in any situation. Choose the response that aligns with your vision.

That makes it simple, right? This applies to everything. Your vision for your relationship. Are you speaking and acting from love or from fear? Your vision for your career? Are you making decisions from inspiration or from insecurity? Your vision for your character?

Are you responding from your highest values or or from your reactive patterns? The challenge is that alignment often requires choosing the harder path. In the short term,

It's easier to avoid the difficult conversation, to skip the workout, to react with anger instead of responding with compassion. But these easier choices compound over time, taking you further from who you want to become. I worked with a client who wanted to build a business based on integrity and service.

But when faced with difficult clients or challenging situations, he would cut corners, make promises he couldn't keep, or prioritize short term profits over long term relationships. He couldn't understand why his business wasn't growing.

The problem wasn't his strategy or his market, it was his alignment. He was saying he wanted to build one of a kind business with while consistently acting in ways that created a different kind of business. Once he committed to alignment, making every decision from integrity and service, even when it was costly, everything changed.

This principle forces you to get honest about what you actually want. If you keep choosing misaligned actions, maybe your stated vision isn't really your vision. Maybe you're trying to want something you think you should want instead of clarifying what you actually desire.

Does this make sense? Alignment, also requires accepting that growth is often uncomfortable. The person you want to become thinks, feels and acts differently than who you are now. Choosing alignment means choosing to be that person, even when it feels unfamiliar or challenging.

If you're ready to stop living in the gray area and start making every choice from complete alignment with your highest vision, I invite you to join our community of people committed to conscious living.