Mark Bell's Power Project - EP. 415 Live - Morning Routines and Avoiding Anxiety

Episode Date: August 4, 2020

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Mark Bell's Power Project podcast hosted by Mark Bell, co-hosted by Nsema Iyeng and myself, Andrew Zaragoza. This episode is recorded on August 3rd and it is with just the Power Project crew, names I just mentioned. Today's episode, we talked about our morning routines, kind of like what does the first half an hour of our days look like for all three of us? And then some of the conversation is kind of turned towards like avoiding anxiety or how to deal with, you know, getting anxious and whatnot and things that we've all utilized

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tomahawk i cut the bone off so i didn't like dig into the meat too much i put the tomahawk in the air fryer at 290 for 24 minutes and it came out perfect this is the crazy thing about air fryers air fryers cook up meat so well. Oh, they're amazing. If you're like in college or you're just like you don't want to use an oven because you're lazy like me or you don't have a grill, just stick it in the air fryer. It's like the next level Foreman Griller. It really is. The Foreman Griller doesn't work that good with like steaks.

I mean, it kind of does, but not that good. Because like in a burger, it like squishes it down and kind of cooks it perfect. But yeah, this is like the next level. I had some wings from my air fryer the other day. So did you like chop like the bone off? Oh, yeah, yeah. So I just used a knife because the bone isn't like really deep into the meat. It's like kind of like at the edge.

So I just kind of shaved it out of the meat, it out it kind of came out really well too people get really upset when you take the bone off there they get they get really mad i just think it's just like a handle but yeah other people like no it makes a big difference when you cook them together so is oh really i don't i didn't know about that well i guess because the bone but the bone is still bone in right not when you take it out oh you you completely cut it out okay yeah i didn't like cut the bone i took i would be the bone out that would be some work yeah like a chainsaw or something the funny thing is i tried that the very first time. I didn't even think this is stupid. I didn't even think I'm going to hurt myself. So then did you have a ribeye or like,

like people wouldn't call that a tomahawk. Yeah. The listeners are probably like, what the fuck? It seemed like you just ruined your whole steak, but let me tell you, that was amazing. Ruined it.

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of fat per serving, if you eat the whole packet, you get 100 grams of, or at least close to 100, a little over 100 grams of protein. You get six grams of fat. Oh. That's like a fucking world record right there. I got to look in it. So is that the 93.7 or is it just like a different one that they have? Because the one that I'm going to eat today is 85.15.

And after getting my new macros, I'm like, oh, shit. So I need to look into that. The 85.15 is pretty good on the macros, too. I got to check. It's not terrible. Yeah. And then anybody that wants it, if you want to offset that, you can just have a protein shake with it. You know what I mean?

Like because the protein shakes, it's like, boom, 30 grams of protein. You just spike up the protein. It's not the same, but protein shake with it. You know what I mean? Because a protein shake is just like, boom, 30 grams of protein. You just spike up the protein. It's not the same, but it might make it fit your macros a little bit better. Would you call that protein leveraging? Yeah. Oh, my gosh. And if somebody wanted to know more information on that, they can check this last Saturday's Saturday School. Mark went in for about almost an hour talking about protein leveraging and how he utilizes it and what a normal typical day of

eating looks like for Mark. So you guys definitely got to check that. Ted Neiman is always the guy to go to for that stuff too. And then he actually more recently has made a chart. I don't know if you guys ever seen his chart, but it's like it's got protein on one side and energy on the other. The PE chart. And so the protein stuff is on the one side you got like beef and chicken and those kinds of things but as you lean towards the energy side it's more like uh carbohydrate it's more um maybe even there's some like junk food on this chart and stuff like that too so it's it's just kind of showing you that you should probably try to be like more in the

middle yeah like you want to try to find that sweet spot. So that's pretty, I think it's cool because it's a chart that you can just, charts are great because you just glance at it and you're like, okay, I get it. You know, it just, it makes everything make a little bit more sense to you. Yeah, there it is. Protein is such a hack though, man. It really, like, it's like, I would throw vegetables in the category too. If you can handle vegetables, the only thing is that vegetables aren't necessarily going towards your muscle mass. Yeah.

So, protein, if I guess you could say it this way, like protein is maybe the only like net positive that you can kind of end up with. The other two things are just energy, in my opinion. Fat, carbohydrates is just energy. The protein goes towards maintaining, holding on to, and or even building muscle mass. And then it just kind of depends, like, how much energy do you really need? How much movement are you doing? How much exercise are you getting? What's your day look like?

You know, that kind of thing. Yeah. Like, it is funny how you can eat so much protein and no matter what you're doing, whether you're trying to gain muscle, whether you're trying to drop weight, it honestly just makes everything so much easier. And if you're trying to diet on minimal protein, you're kind of shooting yourself in the foot because there are a lot of people who try to do that. And it's just difficult because some people just don't like eating that much meat. some people just don't like eating that much meat. I think if you're like me too, and you don't track your food, you're, it's a good idea to get yourself kind of back on track here and there and pay attention,

like really narrow down and say, yeah, you know, I say 300 grams of protein, but am I really? Cause that's a lot of protein. It's a lot of protein. And if you have something like a ribeye or something like that,

it's, it's dense and fat as well. So it's, while it's great to like a ribeye or something like that, it's dense in fat as well. So while it's great to eat a ribeye, you might have to mix in some other types of food to try to ramp up that protein. It's not easy. It can be tough. It's not easy at all. Especially with fasting. Then it creates a whole other element because then it's like, well, now you got to try to jam it into like two meals, which might be,

which might be a great way for you to do it. If you struggle with your just hunger and satiation and stuff like that, try to jam it into two meals might not be a bad idea. Yeah. That's the biggest thing in terms of like, I don't know, fasting has been the biggest thing in terms of staying lean for the past few years. It's, it's, I think everyone should be able to do it too. Even if it's just a few hours

of the day, I mean, if you just get breakfast, you don't need to fast for the whole day. We've talked about this. It doesn't really take, it doesn't take the skill that you think it takes. It doesn't. It's not really a skill. It's something that you can kind of build up. You do need to maybe get used to it, but literally anybody could not eat. Yeah. It's, I think it's really funny when I hear people that make it sound like, make it sound so difficult and so dangerous and so hard. Like we, but we all understand the situations where it might not be the best idea. One of the main situations is if you had like an eating disorder in the past, but outside of that,

it's not going to hurt you. And again, we're talking about intermittent fasting. So we're just talking about, you know about fasting for several hours. I mean, you can do it a bunch of different ways. You can look at your waking hours and say, I'm going to fast for five hours while I'm awake. Or you can count your sleeping hours and you can count the hours before you went to bed. But if you were to shut off your food two hours before you go to sleep and you were asleep eight hours, you got 10 hours of fasting in already. Yeah.

How hard would it be to do 12 hours? Like it just, I think that's a pretty easy, that's a pretty easy ask, you know, and then can you extend that out? Can you get used to it? Can you occasionally do 16 hours or 18 hours? I'd say, I don't know anybody that can't do that. I guess there could be some medical conditions that might prevent somebody from doing it or something. But I don't even know what those would be. Low blood sugar.

People sometimes complain about somebody just being severely underweight. Yeah. Yeah. And that's about it. Yeah. You know, since we're kind of on the topic of waking, one of the things that we want to talk about are some of the things that you do in the morning when you wake up and maybe things you do before you go to sleep things i do or things my penis does um primarily let's start with i mean what's the name for yours one in the same like

wait wait pause what's the name for yours and what's the name for yours do you guys have names for him is yours big congo andrew it is now no no i unfortunately i haven't haven't named you haven't named it i don't think it's important that whatever name i may have for i think what's important is what andy's name is for it you know yeah but it's probably little something little petey or something like that you know you know uh that's that's that's that that's every guy would name it big something yeah but it's funny because you say andy would say little something so would so would sarah she'd call it little something too i'm just like why you gotta

just why you gotta make me feel so bad yeah it's cute like what like no it's not a rocious animal he's talking about it's a beast my fucking pants and shorts can't even contain this goddamn thing what are you talking about lady that reminds me of the guy that you mentioned when uh uh oh god what's his name scott mendelson was here oh my god the guy had the bench the yeah, yeah. Oh, the guy lifting Oswalt. Horscock. Horscock. That was a great story. That guy, you could see his shit through cargo shorts.

That's impressive. I mean, it wasn't like you saw like a little something. Like you saw like that can. That bang energy can. like that can. That bang energy can. You were like, there's no way.

There's no fucking way. And I guess there was. Apparently everybody saw it. That's what I think. If you really have a real monster like that, you would just show everybody at some point. You'd find a way. Somebody that's got 22 inch arms, you're going to see them flex their arm every once in a while right they're gonna be like yo check out this fucking peak right like every

once in a while they're just gonna hit a pose right probably at some point and even if they don't like shove it in your face that way maybe they'll uh flex in the gym when nobody else is around or something like that yeah that's what happens sorry we need to get a camera in here actually we do have cameras you got cameras in the gym you can see what happens when no one's here at a previous gym i was at one of the guys was there like i had to i had to go in and get something i can't remember but like i unlocked it and like there he was like posing but he had like a like a select amount of lights off and a select amount of lights on and he was like like i don't know if he got himself sweaty or if he put oil on or whatever but i saw him and he saw me and i was just like carry on like i didn't say anything but i just kind of gave him that look like yo bro like i get it like you got a good pump you're feeling great

don't let me impede on that and i just like went and got whatever I needed and got out of there. Yeah. So Robo Hobo on the live chat says his is Lil Wang. Lil Wang. That's pretty good. Wow. See, all these all these ladies, man, be disrespecting us. Yeah. And they don't want to they don't want to build our egos. So I say little this.

They wouldn't know big if it hit him in the face. Wait. They wouldn't know big if it hit them in the face. Wait, what? Anyway, my morning routine usually is, you know, just going to my kitchen, trying to drink a glass of water or something like that. Get all the eye boogers out of my eyes. And I don't know. I try to just think about, like, what am I going to do for today? You know, and normally, normally I have like a cup of coffee and then the first wave hits and I got I got to get that out.

But there's nothing really like I don't have I don't have like a set routine that's just too crazy or anything. The only thing I try to do every morning is walk. I try to walk and i try to like and usually when i walk i'm learning something so i'll put on some headphones every once in a while just listen to music um but i try to do that it's not the first thing i do it's usually usually takes me a little while i don't really like to walk in my neighborhood because there's just like nothing there so i'll usually like walk in like downtown dav or I'll walk, um, like on a bike path or something like that. Um, you're up pretty early, right? Still. Yeah. Yeah. I always wake

up pretty early. Um, I wake up, I usually beat the sun, which is a little easier to do at this, this time of year. But, um, yeah, I usually just, I usually just kind of get up and just start moving around and figure out a way to get in some sort of walking or exercising. I don't train in the morning like I used to. That's just kind of been a shift. I'm just trying to get a little bit more sleep. And sleep has finally started to get better. So that's a real plus.

I'm just trying to think if there's anything else that I do. That's a real plus. I'm just trying to think if there's anything else that I do. Most of my day, like once the day gets rolling, most of my day just involves like connecting people and answering text messages. I don't really use email. I don't use a computer. I do own a computer finally, but that's mainly to do the podcast remotely. And I'll give you an example. Like yesterday I got a message from a strength coach,

and he sent me some video with Von Miller using a slingshot. And so Von Miller is huge. You know, all these guys are like they're freaking massive. He's like 6'3", he's like 250. And the slingshot looked a little snug on him, you know, looked a little tight. So I was like, Hey, I was like, let me send you, you know, another one. So I had to connect that guy with Jessica and just little stuff like that. Just kind of connecting the dots, um, with, uh, different people. And it's usually like, sometimes it's just friends and sometimes

it's business related, but like, that's, that takes up like the majority of my time but that has been one thing that has uh i think helped um grow the company and it's helped help me just in business in general is uh just being like i think that person matches up really good with that person i'll put them together i don't know why but i'll put them together and like hopefully some good stuff comes of it and then usually good stuff comes back on me. So, I mean, it sounds like even in the past, like you would wake up and like you do stuff, but then you get to the gym. A big part of like a big concept of your morning routine is getting up and just getting moving. Because like, do you ever or have you had consistent times where you would just wake up and just sit in bed?

I feel like that's a struggle for a lot of people. They wake up and they're just like, then they're back asleep yeah no i never never do that i don't ever i'm not the kind of guy i like to sit on the edge of the bed and be like you know i i like i usually just like get up i mean every once in a while just like anybody else i get up and i'm like should i get up now or you, every once in a while, just like anybody else, I get up and I'm like, should I get up now? Or, you know, should I go back under those covers? And every once in a while, I will, I'll go back to bed. But I'd never go back to sleep if I'm supposed to be up. You know, I just never, I've never been that way. Maybe my parents could say I was as a teenager or something,

but I don't, I don't really remember. I don't think I was ever that way. I, yeah, I like to, movement is, is crucial for me because when I don't move, even if I just sit at home on the couch and watch, even if I just sit down for like an hour or two, I feel so stiff when I get back up. So I'm always like, I just need to keep, I need to figure out a way to keep moving. And even when I do watch a movie, I usually pause it about an hour into it. I'm like, I just couldn't get up and i'm gonna walk around for a little bit sit back down and watch it i can concentrate on it better i feel more comfortable you know you're just like sitting on your couch and you kind of just start end up like you go from like sitting to like laying weird and you get in weird positions and so i'll just

get back up and keep moving and then sit back down and watch the rest of it i dig it okay no that makes a lot of sense the funny thing about the whole morning routine thing, cause a lot of people have like done videos about this and podcasts about this is that sometimes morning routines get super intricate. Like you'll hear, uh, there's a, there's a, whatever, a minute meditation. And then after that, a cold shower. And then after that, a Wim Hof breathing and then boom, boom, boom boom boom and then and then you get to whatever you're going to do but i like how simple that is how simple of a concept just get up walk and start doing something because i would say that a big part of that the reason why i don't do some of that is that i feel that uh my mind is clear and i feel strong

enough to handle whatever comes in because i don't i don't go up or down too much. You know, I'm a lot like you where I just, things are just so, hey, this happened and that happened. It's like, okay, like, that is what it is. How can I help? How can I assist with that? Sometimes you can't. If you can help with it, then that's cool. But things that you, you know, there's not a lot of great reasons to worry about things that you can know there's not a lot of a lot of not a lot

of great reasons to worry about things that you can't control because there's like literally a lot of times nothing you can really do and then things that are in your control then all it is is some problem solving just you gotta you gotta figure it out i think in every family people deal with family dynamics people dealing dealing with family health issues. Also, just you're always dealing with like human behaviors, what it all boils down to. That's what consumes all of the time of everybody is human behavior. Even our medical system, our police departments, everything is just massively consumed by people's behavior. is just massively consumed by people's behavior.

And a lot of times it's not even, people will go to the hospital or go to a doctor when they don't really even necessarily need them. They just don't feel good or they don't feel right. And they're trying to figure out what's wrong, you know. And I think in a family environment, those things can take up a lot of time. Pretty much in every family, there's always like somebody that needs a little extra attention. There's always somebody that needs a little extra. And so there's things like that, that weigh on everybody.

Everyone has an uncle and aunt, a brother, a sister, you know, everyone's got somebody in the family that kind of needs that extra, that extra care. But again, I don't think it does,

it does you any good to sit around and worry about it, be super anxious about it, be upset about it. You just need to figure out, what can I do? How can I help someone in the family that has cancer? How can I help somebody in the family that has a drug addiction? What are some things that I can do? And I feel strong enough every day, even though those things suck, I feel strong enough every day to be able to manage those things because I've kind of come to the recognition, come to the recognition of I get to choose how, how I'm going to react to any of those things. Yeah, no, that, that makes a lot of sense. I think, um, you said like, you're similar to me. I think that myself personally, um, even though I may be common, a lot of situations, my mind is doing too many things. Like I, I think about too many things too often. That's one of my big problems. Like I think about future scenarios and all of this stuff. And I may not like stress about it physically or worry about it. But the fact is that it's always going off. Like if someone says something, like I'll try not to think about it, but it'll be going off as I'm doing something else. So that's why personally, like when I get up, I do meditate

for 20 minutes and I use the waking up app from Sam Harris. I've been using that for like, I think a little bit more than a year now. I've been really digging it, but I use that because when I do finish doing that in the morning I'm able to, it's easier for me to just like focus on being where I am at that point in time. It's the whole idea of just like being present in the moment and doing what you need to do at that point, rather than thinking about all the things you're trying to do and all the things that you want to do and all the goals you want to achieve being present and doing what you're doing.

What's in front of you, uh, not meant too many things stress me out, but my mind can be pretty wild and it's a fucking annoying. There's a lot of thoughts that are popping in and out of there all the time. All the time. And what I've found personally is that's why meditation has been so effective for me. Because it helps me get better at quieting all the stupid stuff. And just focusing on the things that I have to do. It's been really helpful for me.

It's amazing how far off track you can lead yourself. It's crazy. Because you could say, oh my god, I wanted to be a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt in five years. I wanted to win my first championship. And then you could kind of take that and be like, what am I doing? Why am I doing this? Who am I really? Am I defined by jiu-jitsu?

And then you're like, am I going to marry this girl? And it's like, how in the hell did all that conversation pop in your head at once it was just a simple thought in the morning that your elbow was bugging you or something you know it's something really small and now it turned into this like massive engulfing flame and you'd be like oh what about so and so he got his jujitsu black belt faster than i did and what about this guy and it was like holy crap you know those things happen to me too um But it kind of reminds me of like, I used to always be like completely terrified of public speaking. So it's one of the things I can, maybe other people can relate, you know, and then even like in pro wrestling, I could just get crazy butterflies before I went out and did

something. But the butterflies would hit you, you know, sporadically. Let's say that I knew I was going to wrestle on, like, a Friday. It could be, like, Wednesday. And it could be, like, Wednesday night, and I'm just brushing my teeth, getting ready to bed. And all of a sudden, wham! What am I going to do in that match? Oh, man, I'm going against so-and-so. Like, that's going to be tough.

And it's just, and you just, you get butterflies, butterflies and you feel insanely you feel like you're gonna throw up sometimes it's almost as if you're in the experience itself and then you know i've been able to talk myself off that ledge more recently a lot better um when i was younger it was harder but i could also still at that time to say, well, the training is done. You already trained for it. And if you feel that you didn't train hard enough, there's really not much you can do about it at the moment. You feel like you're not lean enough, not in shape enough. You're not crisp enough on the microphone.

You're not whatever. You don't have the right outfit or whatever. There could be millions of things going on in your brain that are just crazy. But then there's things where you can say, okay, well, look, the audience doesn't know, you know, I'm going to go out there and pretend I know what I'm doing. How can I do that? All right, we'll stick to what you know. You know, you're good at like five different things in the ring. Stick to those things. Maybe you feel like you're not in shape enough for the match, you know, and in pro wrestling, when you're not in shape enough for the match, you can put people in holds. You can throw people outside the ring.

I mean, there's a bunch of stuff you can do to where you can figure out where there's like a lull in the action. And I'm sure with jiu-jitsu, you can't really get away with that because of your opponent. However, you can employ a different style. You can employ a different technique. style, you can employ a different technique. And I'm sure that even if you're not in as good of shape, there would be, you could say, all right, well, this guy's a great wrestler. I'm not going to battle him on that because that's going to tire me the hell out. There's still strategies, right, to everything. So I think whenever you get yourself in those predicaments where you are kind of over-talking yourself, I think what we have to do is we have to kind of switch over

to the more rational side of the brain, which is the side of the brain where you're going to be thinking about stuff from like a more technical aspect. They even say, and I'm not bilingual, so this doesn't apply to me, but Andrew, maybe it would work for you. If you know another language, they say think about something in a different language, something that really pisses you off, something that really upsets you. You think about it in a different language, and because you have to switch over

and apply some thought to that, slows you down a little bit, and you're like, okay, all right, well, I think I can deal with that a little bit better. Yeah, and that's the first I've heard of that. Yeah. I know that could have definitely helped me because just like you, I would be doing, I would be having a great day, whatever it may be. And then all of a sudden I would think about something like, fuck, we got that live stream tomorrow with Ben Wiederstrom or whatever it is.

And I'm like, dude, I'm going to fuck it up. Like, I know something's going to happen. And everything ends up working out fine. But in that moment, it's like a slippery slope. slope you know you start to think about one thing that leads to the next thing and the next thing it was really bad when i first started with super training as a just a photographer um dude i'd wake up in the middle of the night like chest pound and just like i'm gonna like hopefully i don't mess anything up and i mean looking at looking back at all the photo shoots like all of them came out

like fantastic so like it was great but i would still just start doubting myself i'd start questioning things like what the hell am i doing is this even you know am i making the right choices here and then now just like mark said like start looking at the facts like okay if i were in a tough situation i could get myself out of it because I know what the hell I'm doing. And then little by little, I can calm myself down now. But I mean, only two years ago, like it was like, I was, I mean, Mark knows, like I was like a warrior, you know, like I'd worried about everything and it's, it's gotten a lot better now.

I remember he was going to try, he was going to try a protein shake one time and he's like's gotten a lot better now i remember he was gonna try he's gonna try a protein shake one time and he's like oh shit he goes and i was like i think you'll like it dude and he's like i am so nervous right now and i said andrew i'm like it's a fucking protein shake man like is it the poop or something and he's like he's like he goes you know me he's like i've just in that way about everything yeah and that's funny because like in that moment, I didn't even really like think like. Probably didn't realize what you said. Because I was so nervous. But thinking also like people get nervous about having a protein shake and then seeing Mark's reaction.

And then like he didn't make fun of me, but he was just like telling other people like, dude, look, this is what he just said. That's what I was like. All right, man. had to calm down you know let me ask you that i think that that's uh first off that that yeah getting nervous about a protein shake is definitely interesting but you don't seem that way now so for you what are the things that you've been employing the last two years that have put you where you are right now What are the things that you've been employing the last two years that have put you where you are right now? Working here has been gigantic for all of that, because before this, I would tiptoe the line of like being uncomfortable. And then the second I got close, I would fucking sprint the other way.

Again, being here sometimes it's sort of like it's what's it called? Trial by fire. So it's like, Hey, Andrew, you got a photo shoot tomorrow with this big, you know, fitness person in the fitness industry. Uh, don't fuck it up. Like, Oh, okay. It wasn't that bad, but you know, kind of, you know, it was like, Hey, like this is happening, like get ready for it, prep and dah, dah, dah. And then, so something that, uh, past me, previous me would just shit my pants.

Now it's like, okay, I have to go do this because I need to provide for my family. It's bigger than just me now. So, I would start, I just, I built, I put points on the scoreboard. And then when I do get freaked out, I look at that scoreboard and like, I've been here before. I've been in worse situations. I've, you know, I've had to throw. I've been in worse situations. I have, you know, I've had to throw the hail Mary in the fourth quarter and I nailed it. Other times I had a tough opponent and I just crushed them the entire game.

So building confidence has, it started by making small wins, of course. And then now it's like what Mark said, just thinking at, looking at things rationally. And then also what John like what Mark said, just looking at things rationally. And then also, John Asaroff had said something that I had already started doing anyways. He called it like AYA or something like that. Yeah, application intention, awareness intention and application? Something like, whatever it is. One of them was uh yeah the action thing so like yesterday i had a bunch of stuff like to get today's episode up and running on the on the

uh the youtube channel with um lane johnson you guys need to check that out it's freaking great episode but i just was like shit i can't get to it right now but what can i do it's like okay i can start exporting now and then go do other things. So one of his processes or whatever was like, what can I do right now? Cause in my head, I'm like, I'm not going to have enough time to do all of this.

I don't want to miss a Monday. Like Mondays are great for podcasting. I can't miss it. And so I start building all this pressure. I'm like, dude, just what can you do right now? One little tiny thing,

click a button that hits that says export and then get going on to something else and then everything worked out just fine i did go to bed late but you know whatever uh so yeah doing one little thing to help push you towards your end goal wherever that is or even if it's just to calm down what can you do can you go for a walk yeah i can definitely go for a walk because by time i come back i'll be calmer and i can handle the situation a little bit better. So for me, definitely looking at my past experiences, understanding that I have the skills or ability to do whatever the task at hand calls for. And then, of course, you know, just looking at the straight facts, you know, like, OK, if this stream were to shut down right now, is Mark going to fire me right on the spot?

I would hope not, but I don't think he would. So like, don't, don't, don't, don't be too confident. I know. Uh, so like, yeah, look like sometimes looking at the worst thing ever is not a good idea, but when you have an idea that it's not going to be the end of the world, that's okay too. So doing things like that. And then of course, just trying to do one thing just to get moving. I had to talk my sister out. She's trying to, my sister is in the process of buying a new house too. And she has this list of all kinds of stuff. Like, buying a house is such a pain in the balls. So, she had this list of things and she's like, I just want to quit already.

Like, I'm just so done. And I'm like, just grab one of those things on that list, write it on a paper and put it somewhere else. And then, or ditch the, uh, the long list and look at that one thing compartmentalize. That's been gigantic for me. Um, look at that one thing. Can you get that one thing done? It's like, yeah, you can probably get that done today. It's like, all right, cool.

Did you, did, did, uh, what you're talking about there? I mean, it seems obvious, but, um, there is this, uh,

uh, not a habit book that you read, but, uh, eat that frog. Was it, did you, did you like get any concepts from any of those books that,

that have like, uh, yeah, yeah, that one, that one definitely helped, you know, that helped with like the,

uh, the, the more like anxious side of me. Like if I have to make a phone call with somebody, like. You know, that helped with like the more like anxious side of me. Like if I have to make a phone call with somebody, like, you know, sometimes making a cold call or whatever is like, it's like nerve wracking for me. So, like if that's the worst thing that I have to do today, if I just like a band-aid rip that shit off and get it done with, then the rest of the day is like all downhill. We're good to go. But that one, like compartmentalizing actually got that from working here with chris griffin you know i remember like we had so much shit to do

like dude there's no way we're ever gonna finish this and he's like you need to come compartmentalize i'm like what does that word mean and then he told me he was like block all the other shit that's you know that's not gonna help us right now block that out and just do what we need to do and it was always usually for like a sale or something you know something that's not going to help us right now. Block that out and just do what we need to do. And it was always usually for like a sale or something, you know, something that was real, real time sensitive. Work on that because that's going to better the company. That's going to better like everything here. Like get that done and then work on like hustle mania. Get that, you know, like little by little things would disappear.

And then it's like, huh, I feel good. And then when I get hit with another task, it's like, well, fuck it. Last week I just did all of that. This couple of one, two, three things here is going to be super easy. So again, just looking at the facts and just realizing that like, yeah, I am capable. It helps get rid of a lot of that tension and that stress and anxiety. Has there ever been a time here that you've uh failed at something or you thought you failed at something but you ended up kind of just like i guess learning from that

and doing way better because you mentioned like you know there are a lot of things here that you thought you would fail out but you legit killed it but has there ever been here that you didn't do the best at something but then you're like okay i can i can kill that next time uh man that that's tough because i i do look at every situation like like a learning experience um and i hate to sound cocky to be like no i'm like 100 i just uh i mean like so we did a webinar with jen widerstrom i had technical issues and that drives me freaking crazy so it didn't go as smooth as i wanted but now i kind of know like okay even though i did a test run with josh the day before for some reason it didn't work on this date so i gotta you know work on that but um as far as like maybe not delivering

the absolute best like product or something like i have gotten a text from mark being and mark's mark's amazing but he would be like hey that sucked i'm like oh what happened and so like i'd be bummed because like you know especially for videos it takes a long time and then i would look at him like now you know he's right or whatever it may be and then i can alter it and whatever yeah it does take more time but it just made me a better editor made me me a better videographer, photographer, you know, all of the above. So, uh, I don't know, man, it's tough to say whether or not, like I truly like just fell flat on my face. I asked you that because, um, it seems like it's like you, it seems that before you were really anxious, like you had quite a bit of anxiety. And I'm not saying that in any negative way as a disarray.

I think it is you did, which and where you are now, you can't really tell that from an outside person looking at you, which is amazing because a lot of people that have anxiety, it's difficult. But it seems like being here, whether it was put on you by Mark or the other people here, or whether you put yourself in that situation, you were always put at the edge of your capability, right? You were always doing something that was just like a little bit out of what you thought you could do. Then you could do it. And then you reached a new level. Then you do something else that was a little bit farther than you thought you could do, but you did it.

And then you reached a new level. And I think that in and of itself is something that people that have that problem or people that have anxiety when everybody has some level of anxiety can use finding your finding that little edge that something that is a little higher than you think you can do maybe a little bit challenging doing it and building that confidence because you're super fucking confident right now well i'm trying but i mean really you are so i think that's a big thing about everything you just mentioned i actually think the key element is that you're not trying actually things i think you're just doing because you gained it you know like i think the second

that we start trying anything is when we start to really fuck things up you know like jujitsu right like you try harder like yeah no like i can, I can't try against you. You're going to tap me out every time, no matter what position we're in. I can't, you can't be like, Mark, dude, like, what are you doing? Like, you need to try harder. It's like, I don't have the skill. I don't have the knowledge. I don't know what I'm doing. You know? So trying is, trying is an interesting word. I think that things get built off the back of just doing continually doing. And part of the reason for the walking is that it's like a very literal and figurative thing of like, putting one foot in front of the other of moving forward, I'm moving, I'm moving forward through space, you know, I'm, I went from here to there. And even though I don't really think this way, I think it does work this

way that if my day is the worst day that I've had in years, if there's a lot of clutter in it and just a lot of stuff in there that I don't particularly love, I could look back at the day and say, oh, I walked two miles this morning. That's pretty cool. At least I did that. Oh, well, at least I stayed on my diet pretty good. That's neat. At least I got to spend some time with my kids. Like, yeah, there was a bunch of weird pressure in the day. And there was a bunch of stuff that happened that I didn't know was going to happen.

But that's okay. That happens every day. There's always shit that they don't know is going to happen. And so I think, you know, trying to, like, balance the mind, I think, is really critical. But if we go back to what our neuroscientist said, Dr. Huberman, when we had him on the show, and if you listen to some of the stuff from Ryan Holiday, they're saying things that collaborate really well, that come together really well. Things have been said by people from thousands and thousands and thousands of years ago that are now just just now being recognized and learned by neuroscientists. Like that doesn't make any sense on how on how that that is. But I think sometimes just logical explanations on how you feel or how we interpret things, I think,, is a very, is a very powerful form of science in some respects. I know that like, I know that science should include

many different observations, not just ones from a person, but we should be testing and seeing if we can duplicate that, you know, and there's, there's a lot of different ways of going about making sure that you have good science, but you know know, with Marcus Aurelius, he says, the impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way. You know, the obstacle is the way. That's Ryan Holiday's book. And that is a very interesting statement. So what's in your way?

What is what's the thing that you're putting off? That's the thing that you must do. That's the thing that you have to look at a little bit more and say, you know what, I need to. And sometimes it's not you doing it because sometimes what you're asking yourself to do is set forth in the future because it's something that you cannot physically do at the moment. But it's steps. You can't just get your brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt just because you want it you know um it's something that you got to take you got to continue to take steps for somebody that wants to

uh graduate from college you know it's you got to just keep how do you continue to take steps for it maybe maybe because of everything that's going on maybe you can't go to school the way that you would like to could you still take a couple credits you know you probably could yeah could you know there's there's always things that you there's always things that um that you could look at and say yeah i can i could probably figure out a way to do that and what huberman is saying saying, when you listen to him, especially on Joe Rogan, and on our show as well, he said similar things. But on Joe Rogan's show, he talked about how it lights up certain parts of the brain when you get challenged and you get aggravated. And when it does that, it encourages you to do it again. Like that is very addicting. And so I think in this time we have people saying, you know, social media is really addicting and

social media is really brutal. And it is. It's designed that way. But you know what else is addicting? Treating yourself the right way. You know, getting good sleep. Oh, definitely. You know, getting good sleep is a great way. And people that start to get better sleep, they don't do it because they want to be out for eight hours. They do it because they know the reward that's coming from it. And so it's a cyclical thing. the reward that's coming from it. And so it's a cyclical thing. People don't abstain from eating shitty food because they have different taste buds than you. We do so because we understand

that the restraint is going to lead, the resistance of that is something that we would be better off blasting through because what's on the other side of that is going to be us feeling better and us looking better or performing better. Whatever the things are that we want, it's us going towards that goal. And so the impediment to action advances action. I told Andrew about a study. I should look this up a little bit further so I can give you guys the study that it came from or at least give you a link to somebody describing it. But there's a study where they put people in a room,

and they put them in total isolation. They're in a dark room, and they're by themselves. And they put them in there for like 15 minutes. And there was a drastic difference between the men and the women. I don't know why, but it could be some different psychological differences between men and women. Anyway, they put a button in the room and they said,

when you push this button, it's going to make a noise. And it's also going to zap you. It's an electrical shock. They tell everybody that and they leave the room. That button is going to fucking hurt. When you touch it, it's going to hurt.

So they leave people in the room and people start within two three minutes people start touching that button they start hitting that button over and over again and one guy hit it like 300 times or something like that oh my god something yeah it was something crazy and the women hit it percentage wise a lot a lot less but But what it goes to show you is we would rather do anything other than sit still and be bored. And there could be other things at play because you're in a dark room. So maybe we don't know where we are. And that kind of centers us and makes you feel better in some way, makes you feel safer. I don't know. and makes you feel better in some way, makes you feel safer.

I don't know. But to me, you know, the other studies that they've done that Huberman mentions on Joe Rogan, you can listen to him. Go about halfway through the show if you don't want to listen to the whole thing. Listen halfway through all the way to the end, and you'll get the gist of it. But basically he's talked about how one of the main parts of the brain that people like to have lit up more so than every other part of the brain in these other studies that they did. And I'm kind of forgetting how they actually ran went about these studies. Yeah.

But it was like sexual pleasure. It was other sensations. I can't remember. It was like eating and a bunch of other things. But the one that people went to the most was frustration and I think it was frustration and

maybe like pain. And so, again, the impediment to action advances action. The thing that you're like, fuck, I can't quite figure this. You know what? I need't oh i can't quite figure this you know what i need to relax i need to figure this out i need to get this done ah there we go i figured it out i think that's why we lean towards that stuff because it fucking puts your head in a

knot like a rubik's cube or something right can't figure the thing out and then you start to figure it out and then you can be like tom and you can do it blindfolded right yeah and then um so the i pulled it pulled up an article from science mag.org it's titled people would rather be electrically shocked than left alone with their thoughts and then so one thing that stands out for me real quick is uh even though all participants had previously stated that they would pay money to avoid being shocked with electricity, 67% of men and 25% of women chose to inflict it on themselves rather than just sit there quietly and think. Was there an age range there, dude? Like, did they say? I'll try to find it, but yeah.

You know, the reason, like, why I like what you mentioned there so much, and this is a this is another reason why I like meditation has been so helpful for me. And I think maybe walking has been so helpful for you in a way is because when I do that for 20 minutes, every single time I find that the day is just so much easier to not have to have something going off, like not have to. I don't randomly scroll through social as much. I don't randomly pull up a YouTube video as much. I'm able to just be there with whatever I'm doing or whatever I'm thinking. And I'm able to be more comfortable with that. I think that practice has helped me out so much with that because I've found that the times where I maybe lose out on that, or I just start focusing on other things that starts to happen a little bit more. I start to look for ways to

keep myself entertained. You know what I mean? It doesn't happen to a crazy extent, but I see it start happening more and then I get myself back to where I need to be. I like that a lot. That sounds to me like the difference between rolling out of bed and trying to do max effort squats versus getting to the gym, moving around a little bit, using a hip circle, getting your body warmed up properly. Then when you go through the gym, moving around a little bit, using the hip circle, getting your body warmed up properly. Then when you go through the workout, the whole entire workout is more optimal. Now instead of struggling with 275, you're able to fluently move around 315 with good form, good technique, better range of motion.

You'll probably recover from the workout even better because you moved better throughout the whole workout. Yeah, it's amazing what a little preparation can do. And I think even though I don't have like a morning routine where I'm like meditating or whatever, I'm still doing something that is, I think it sounds weird, but I'm doing something that is setting my mind away from what I'm doing. And I think that's what meditation is doing, too. And Seema, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that you're like meditating and thinking about the day. Like that would be the opposite of meditation. You're clearing everything out the best you can, right?

Yeah. Usually when I'm meditating, you're kind of just either focusing on your breathing or maybe your focus is going through different parts of your body and just trying to feel how everything feels maybe if i'm sitting outside and do it i'm just like focusing on all the sounds going on around me and trying to take everything in but it never gets more complex about that i'm not thinking about everything i'm doing today i'm not meditating about people or whatever just so it's pretty much just focusing on the present moment your breath your body etc do you um like especially at first did you like i don't know you hear a truck you know horn in the background or you hear this like did you just kind of let that come into your thoughts and then kind of kick it out or like how did you how do you deal with or oh my legs are kind of uncomfortable because i've been sitting

here for a few like how do you what do you do with those thoughts that's the thing because it's like when you first when when anybody first starts meditating like your your thoughts going everywhere but the whole the whole point of getting better at it is like to let the things come in let it go out and not judge yourself for it so if you do find that you started meditating but then three minutes later you're like whoa I was thinking about the day for the past three minutes you You didn't even realize it. You're just like, OK, I did that. Let me start focusing on the breath again. That's the whole point, because like personally, I've noticed that I was doing a lot of that at the very beginning.

But as I got in more reps of that, then I was able to not have my mind wander nearly as much. It's like it's just like training, dude. You know, when you're training in the gym and you're, you know, the first day you're really bad after a few months, after you've repped things out, you get stronger. It's the same thing with your mind. You get stronger at staying focused at whatever it is you're staying focused at. And then that kind of just warps into the rest of your day. You're able to just be present and stay focused on what you're doing. You don't need to pull out your phone for entertainment all the time.

It just gets easier. And that's why, personally for me, it's been so beneficial. Andrew, what's up? What was your dad's morning routine like? Let's see. So, wake up before everybody because he just had to go to work like a normal person that had nothing to do with the kids waking up late or him waking up extra early. It is normal.

He would drink coffee. I think it was like a burrito, like like egg burrito or something like that. Sounds dope. Either that or like some like some sweet bread. And then he would go to work. That's about that's about all I can remember. I should say. Yeah, I think so. And my point here is that, you know, people used to have a lot more responsibility on their shoulders and you didn't really, I mean, maybe your dad still could have used

a little bit of a routine. Maybe it would have assisted him. Maybe somebody like, if you can picture this, which might be really weird, somebody saying hey you know what today is another great day uh when you get home your kids are going to be here coming back from school you're going to have made money you're going to have provided for the family in a great way just like you always do and then like rather than like going into work being like oh shit i'm going to be late or you know just having like pent oh I hope I don't see fucking Dan or whatever. You know what I mean? Just having like pent up weird energy heading into work. But, you know, I think my dad was the same way. You know, he would wake up and my dad was always pretty early riser. So he wasn't like rushing to work.

He would just kind of, he would get there on time, but he'd always make sure he had enough time. He would get there on time, but he'd always make sure he had enough time. And, yeah, I don't recall him, you know, like meditating or going for a walk or any of those things. But I do think that people that do have kind of a nine to five, I do think they would still find it beneficial. But when your day is full of responsibility, it really changes things. And I think in today's world, people just have less responsibility because we have the convenience of being able to handle things through computers and through technology. Not everyone has to work in the office five days a week, 40-hour weeks for everybody. So I think that in today's world, things are a little bit different, but even that person that does have that nine to five, maybe they can't do the, maybe they

struggle with the morning kind of routine, but maybe at lunch, maybe you can get out for a walk or maybe you can meditate, man, a 10 minute, 10 minutes away from everybody and 10 minutes, just kind of sitting under a tree or something or just trying to relax. I mean, that 10 minutes can propel you forward a lot, I think so. It's still beneficial to try to loop it in there somewhere. Andrew's dad has had heart issues. My dad has had heart issues. And I think it's very common from that generation.

And that's just because the responsibility every day they were so damn tough they're just like yep i'm gonna go do it again today and even though yesterday was hard today might be harder but i'm gonna fucking take my lumps again today and when i get home i'm gonna get yelled at by my wife and my kids are gonna be hanging from the fucking ceiling fan you know and they just yep we're gonna do it again okay cool we're all gonna go on vacation together all right pack up the car and the kids are yelling and screaming in the you know it's like there's a lot going on yeah but they somehow figured out a way to make it work and that's probably why a lot of that that generation hung on to religion so strongly because i think they needed something like that makes sense yeah god help me no dude shit's going down over here all

the time. No, that like, yeah, no, you guys mentioned your parents, like the same thing. My mom, it's still like surprising me, like how hard and consistent she can work. Like even to this day, it's, it's always shocked me. But you know, one thing I'm curious about, both of you probably remember the time before social media, I was in high high school but you guys were adults so my question is do you think that because like yeah these what happened back then what happened back in 2006 what was it like when tupac dropped an album when he was still alive no but but legit i'm really curious about this because obviously like those individuals

have a lot of responsibilities it's not like people don't have responsibilities now but do you guys think that um because there were distractions then but do you think that the distractions are more dangerous now or more like uh they grab you more now because like you like yeah when instagram and stuff came out you were an adult like you were using kind of fresh right did it ever really start to seep into you like did you notice oh shit this is what the fuck's going on okay i need to stop that ever happened to you or no i think this is a different podcast because we can go on and on for this about this one forever and uh i think uh maybe we'll wrap this one up we'll answer this question and i think we should start off and i think this is a good uh a whole nother podcast topic but um just to answer the question i think i um i would say like the start of social media in my opinion is instagram i think everything else before that was just kind of like messing

around a little bit like networking but i noticed that the negative the negative stuff seemed to kick up and it's not instagram's fault but around the time that instagram started to become popular it seemed like things got more negative um myspace you know uh people were like using it to like hook up and people were using it to like old friends, and it wasn't really family-oriented. Facebook originally seemed pretty family-oriented, but that kind of turned into everything's going to get sexualized at some point. Facebook also turned into maybe a little bit of business, and you could pump out.

For me, what I would do on Facebook often is I would share my YouTube video, and that used to work great. My YouTube video would get 1,500 more views in like one day just from reposting it onto Facebook. Wow. That kind of stuff doesn't happen anymore. People don't want you to intermingle the different. Well, the platforms themselves like block, not block, but they hide that. Yeah.

Yeah, it's all very different so now you have to download it to facebook if you want it to get viewed properly or whatever but um i would say that instagram is where it started to kick up where well okay so here's i just thought of it here's what happened i forgot instagram was the first uh thing that was just for your phone. Yeah. You couldn't use it on a computer. So that's where we got. We all got fucked over because now we became a cybernetic organism with this phone attached to our hand.

And that that forever changed everything. And, you know, I'd also say, like, I don't know, man, who's looking into this stuff? Like, was there any thought process behind that? I'd also say, I don't know, man, who's looking into this stuff? Was there any thought process behind that? Was anybody like, hey, you know? So in the food and alcohol industry, you have to serve a certain amount of food. They have laws. I forget what the reasons are, but they have rules.

Maybe these social media things should have a rule. Hey, 30% of your people need to be on their computer. I don't know how they would regulate that or how they would do that, but it just seemed like there was no thought process into it. It was 15 seconds, right? Our attention span has dropped a ton. think uh your average like seven-year-old used to have like an attention span of like seven seconds and now your average adult has an attention span of about the same really about seven seconds or something like that nine seconds i don't know it's pretty bad but anyway we got conditioned you know i think through instagram i think that was the one and uh i but i didn't i didn't recognize it as i didn't i didn't recognize it i, I didn't, I didn't recognize it.

I didn't, I didn't, I wasn't like, Hey, this is, you know, this is going to be bad. I didn't recognize it. I could, I could say that honestly. I didn't notice it. Yeah. And Instagram was originally called, I think bourbon. Really? Yeah.

And all it was, and I could be wrong, but I might've got it confused with another app, but all it was, was really just like, kind of like, do you remember, I think it was called square or something like that, where you would just like check into places. Like, so like if me and you followed each other on this app, I can be like, Oh, I'm at Phil's. And you'd be like, Oh, this dude's at Phil's. I'm going to go say what's up. And there was like almost no images or there was maybe very, like, it wasn't even a main thing of the app.

Yeah. and then all of a sudden they gave people the ability to post pictures of like i'm at phil's look at my coffee cup and then they realized everybody only was on there to do the pictures so they're like we're gonna call it instagram and do nothing but photos an interesting thing is uh like i i'll share this that i posted the other day on my Twitter feed over here. An interesting thing is that we say that social media is addicting, but then who is on social? It's us. You know, it's like it's our own fault in a lot of ways.

But the way that they have started to design these things has made it, has amplified it and has made it a lot worse. So I would say that Facebook, it was more common. If I was checking out and SEMA's Facebook page, I would like be on your page for like longer. I would check out what you were doing. Maybe I would see like a video that you posted and maybe you had some dialogue with it or maybe you had a photo and you had some dialogue with it.

I would kind of like check it out and I'd be like, okay, cool. Like I learned something. And I think that Instagram, when Instagram came along, along it was just like you're just flying through like okay i like that picture i like that picture okay let me check out their story okay that's cool i got a comment on that you know you're fucking flying through it like i would imagine i don't know if there's statistics on this but i'd imagine the images that you see through IG, like once that exploded, then that became, I mean, Facebook bought them out because they recognized what they were doing. But I think the images that you see through Instagram and now through Snapchat and now

through TikTok is just like off the charts. It's got to be double or triple than what you would see in Facebook. And Facebook, if you remember, there used to be like a good amount of space between the next thing that you saw. You know, there'd be dialogue or white whatever. There'd be something in the way. But all this other stuff is like shrunk down. And I was watching my one of my nieces when I was on vacation checking out her stuff. And I just I couldn't even I couldn't see anything.

She was going through it so fast. I was like, how she even yeah but she's 13 or whatever that's so she's used to it but she was just going like flying through it i'm like oh my god that's a lot of images to your brain at one time yeah and then uh so serif on the live chat brings up a really awesome point that i hadn't even thought about but um they said uh once data became cheap that's when like everything went nuts because i remember people having like data caps unlimited yeah like oh i gotta wait till i get wi-fi so that way i can check well they had unlimited for a while too no that's what i mean yeah like like so people didn't have the unlimited plans yet and so they would have to like wait till they got to a wifi to check their

Facebook. And then all of a sudden everything became unlimited and it was just like nonstop now. Okay. Wait, do you guys want to talk about this in the next one? Yeah. All right,

let's do that. Let me, I'll save the quote for the next one. Cause it's a freaking great quote. Cause I know it, but let's just finish up our thoughts on the morning. I know we got sidetracked. Any food for anybody?

Any coffee? I'll just do mine really fast because it's funny because it's going to end in poop. But so right away, just straight away, just get up as quick as I can. Just like Mark. Well, I mean, sorry, not like Mark. I actually do have a hard time with the alarm going off. I do set an alarm still. It goes off.

If I'm close to it, I will hit snooze and be like, all right, time to get up, blink, and it's going off again. So, I actually, I'll plug my iPhone in and then I'll like kind of like put it on the ground and like slide it as far as the cord will go. I have like a pretty long cord. Don't do you. Yeah, buddy. do you yeah buddy when it goes off i have to either like fish it back or i have to stand up and go get it so doing that alone i'm like all right well i'm already up so i'm now up uh at least 12 ounces of water with like a good amount of pink himalayan salt. I usually take that with a D3,

some fish oils and allergy pill just in case. And then follow that up with a caffeine drink. So like from one of those MLM companies, it's just like a powdered like a hundred, a hundred milligrams of caffeine down that. And then by time that's halfway down, it's getting pretty close to like, oh, like, oh, I need to get into the bathroom right now. And so, I sprint to the bathroom,

handle business. And then depending on what day it is, if I'm going to do cardio just at home, I'll just clean up and go straight to cardio and then shower. Or if I'm going to come and train, I'll shower and then I'll come in and train. Yeah. So, soon, hopefully, I'll be able to do the cardio and come in and train in the morning. And I do all that fasted. So, I don't worry about food until probably around 1 o'clock every day. And alarm goes off somewhere between, yeah, about 4.30, 4.45. And I can usually get everything in alright Andrew

one week challenge for you no alarm what if my wife sets hers cause she's not lay down the law in the house oh man

yo woman the only time you're setting alarm is to make me some pancakes i have to i can picture andrew like like like yelling that but he's only yelling into the mirror like practicing yeah yeah and he goes out and stephanie's like what were you doing in there like oh nothing honey i was just i was just fixing the mirror you know if i don't set the alarm, I wake up at 5.30 almost every day, no matter what. But, yeah, I guess I can get all Elliot Hulse and just, you know, like there's no more alarms. Yeah. No matter what you say, woman.

You can do it. You can do it. Yeah. What time does her alarm go off? 5.45 you said? Hers goes off at probably around 5 also. She gets up, gets some training in? Yeah, yeah, she's doing it.

I would say, like, you know, if her alarm goes off, that's fine. But maybe she can keep it at a noise level that doesn't, you know, kill you too bad. Yeah, maybe you hear it, but it doesn't, you know, get you all the way awake or whatever. You'll probably pop up when she pops up anyway. Yeah, and the times where I wake up before the alarm, I feel fantastic. Right. You know, you're ready to go. And then if you're like, oh, I still have, if it's less than two hours, you're fucked.

But like, oh, I still have like an hour and a half. I'll be fine. No, you're done. Yeah, just try it till the end of the week. It's Monday. So try it Tuesday to Friday and see how it feels. I haven't woken up from an alarm in a while. Every once in a while, I got to wake up super early.

Like I had to wake up super early for New Jersey. But a lot of times when that happens, like I'll wake up, you know, 45 minutes or 30 minutes before the alarm goes off. Like use the bathroom or something. Something will wake me up almost all the time. So I'll usually just be like, ah, fuck it. I'll just stay up. I usually just do that because if I go back to bed and I feel worse, usually I just have

to, cause this made me laugh. Uh, Robo Hobo said, name Andrew's junk, the law, so he can lay it down. Robo hobo. That's a good one, man. I don't think your pregnant wife's going to find out to be a musician. There's no law being laid down around here. Oh, man. I like that.

That was good. Yeah. All right. Yeah. Let's wrap this thing up, man. Everybody, thank you for checking out today's episode. Thank you, Piedmontese, for sponsoring this episode. If you guys want more information on them, check the YouTube, Facebook, podcast, show notes, everything down in the description below.

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like still groggy from like waking up so i usually am up for an hour or so and i'll take some on my walk or i'll take some uh before we kick off the podcast. You can check that out at mindbullet.com. Strength is never a weakness. Weakness is never a strength. What do you got to add? I just got to second that. I'm using MindBullet almost every day. I'm really digging it. So you guys, you should hop on that train. Okay, Mark. And we're out. Catch y'all later.