Mark Bell's Power Project - If You’re NOT Getting Results, Listen to This… || MBPP Ep. 947

Episode Date: June 19, 2023

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To me, motivation is like a shower, like just why not use it every day? I think it's really easy to think about like what you're doing and the effort that you're putting in and thinking that you should be getting like more. But I think sometimes maybe the effort's not concentrated enough. You know the things you need to be more consistent on and you didn't do those things and you've gotten this amount of results, but you haven't been putting all the work that you need to put in. Can't get mad at what you get either.

Part of being a champion, you know, part of trying to get better at something is the ability to shut things down, is the ability to turn things off. People can get through a lot and they can overtrain and you can kind of adapt to some of that. But it's not a great way to really, truly make progress. You can see the training splits of what a lot of higher level people are doing. And sometimes you want to make progress. So you feel like you need to do that. But you've got to be smart enough to be consistent and start where you are. And I'm going to eat some pizza because that's going to make progress so you feel like you need to do that but you got to be smart enough to be consistent and start where you are.

And I'm going to eat some pizza because that's going to make me feel good. You're trying to get these particular results. You're trying to lock these things down but you're not actually doing the correct work and it also takes time. Your diet being intact for a day, two days, three days, four days, seven days, it's not enough

and that's what sucks about it. Yeah, we got some good shit to talk about for once. I think. You think so? I think so. I hope so. This is a historical episode. Yeah. This is the first time ever.

First time we had a good topic. Heck yeah. I'm excited, guys. First time in a long time. This has been a long day already, dog. I spilled coffee on myself. It's like... You did some sort of weird internal Hulk smash thing where you didn't actually smash anything but he did make a

noise, right? He got so frustrated. It was internal anger. I'll demo it real quick. So the coffee spilled and then... It was like a... It was more like that because I didn't want to scream. I'm not a So the coffee spilled and then I kind of went like, it was like a, it was more like that

because I didn't want to scream. I'm not a screamer. I'm not a yeller. I'm more of like, keep it in. Did you hear the way he said that? Yeah. He said the coffee spilled. Interesting choice terminology.

Not that. The coffee spilled itself. That motherfucking coffee, bullshit coffee The coffee spilled itself. That motherfucking coffee. Bullshit coffee. Spilled itself. Push blame onto others is the way I operate. Yeah. Coffee just wanted to end it all.

Freaking lousy table. Stupid sturdy table. Oh, Lord. Anyway, we have a couple clips to show you guys that I think I was just flipping through Instagram. I probably shouldn't be, but I'm a sucker of clips to show you guys that I think I was just flipping through Instagram. I probably shouldn't be, but I'm a sucker just like anybody else. Going to be scrolling, scrolling too much. And I just, I found every once in a while, just find some things I find interesting.

And I'm like, oh, let's share that on a podcast. But I think there's a lot to talk about. We have a clip from Eric Thomas and we have another clip after that that we'll show you guys. And we're going to put some of this together for you you know we're going to get into the seriousness of this episode by the way guys if you guys mentioned in the last podcast um three of you guys will be getting our shirts sent out to you that are on powerproject.live andrew you can pull that up real quick so they can see the shirt but you did comment um i'd like the fleshlight or something like that so the first three of you guys that commented that, we're sending you guys shirts.

Just make sure you're in the Discord because I will message you. And then secondly. Can I get a shirt? Oh, have one. Look at that. Look at that. That's so clean. That is very clean.

There's the front. Yeah. Yeah. That's nice. Just wanted to give you guys a heads up on that. You guys are getting those shirts. You will not look this good though, but you know,

you'll look better. That's what you look like. Those guns. Damn. Anyway. Ready for clip one? Yep. Yes.

I am. Don't be upset by the results you didn't get with the work you didn't do. All right. Listen to me. Don't be upset by the results you didn't get from the work you didn't do. All right? Listen to me. Don't be upset by the results you didn't get from the work you did not do. I listen to Eric Thomas almost every day. Really?

I love listening to that stuff. I know some people think it's corny to listen to motivation or you hear people say, motivation is fleeting. But I think you could have some... To me, motivation is like a shower. Like just why not use it every day? Like use some dosages of it every day.

And I find like when I listen to stuff like that, it gets me fired up. I don't really need someone to necessarily tell me to go out there and do it, but I do find it inspiring. A few years ago, I remember you sent me this motivational speech. And, Andrew, you've probably heard it too, Just Do It by Art Something. Yeah, Art Williams. Art Williams. Art Williams. I listened to that speech every day for the next two weeks. Literally. It's amazing. It was so good.

I love that. And supposedly he came out with that speech like the year before Nike did their Just Do It campaign, but they don't know anything about it supposedly. That's wrong, dude. But it's a little strange. But anyway, I found that to be interesting because I think we, you know, we lie to ourselves, you know? Even just something so simple as the other day I was in the gym and I was like, I'm like, I don't know why this is always so sore. And I said it to Russell. And Russell's like, you run like five miles every day and you lift every day. He's like, you work out twice a day, every day. And, uh, so we were just like totally laughing

about that. He's like, that's like me saying, I don't know why I'm fat. I got no, no idea why I gained all this weight. He's like, he's like, I kind of have an idea where it came from. Did you say that to Russell? Russell said that to me. Russell said it. Oh, okay, okay, okay. I love him. I love him. For some reason I lost.

I was like, damn, Mark, you are. No. You are roasting this one a little bit. Deep. No, we were just, we were messing around. Yeah. But I think it's really easy to think about like what you're doing and the effort that you're putting in and thinking that you should be getting like more,

I should be getting more out of this. But I think sometimes maybe the effort's not concentrated enough. Maybe you have to, maybe you have to talk to someone who's in a better spot than you. Maybe you need to talk to somebody that's been there before. Somebody that's done it before. Maybe you need to consult a coach. Do you currently think that you have all the answers?

Do you think you already know everything? If you do and you're making progress, then I'd say continue onward. But can you read another book about it? Can you look it up on YouTube? Could you go to a seminar? You know, we hear these stories all the time, the people that are hungry and the people that want to really figure it out. You know, I moved to Westside Barbell years ago to pursue, pursue basically a powerlifting career, which is like, I don't even know. I don't even have any idea what that even means now, even still, but I wanted to, I wanted to be better. I didn't know about being the best. I had no idea if I, if I was ever going

to be the best or considered the best or anything like that. But I did, I knew that if I didn't know about being the best. I had no idea if I was ever going to be the best or considered the best or anything like that. But I did. I knew that if I didn't explore it, that I would never have any idea at all. I was like, I'm not going to ever know anything. Just by training with some of the people I was training with at that time, it just wasn't going to I wasn't going to really be able to turn into what I thought I could turn into. And so why not give yourself the best opportunity you can by getting around some like-minded people, getting around people that maybe have been there before, and they could say, hey, this is the way. Dude, you know, the interesting thing about this quote is that it kind of goes two ways. Because he says don't get mad at the results you didn't

get from the work you didn't do. But if you also think about, don't get mad at the results you did get from the work you didn't do. Like if, if for example, you know, you're, let's say that you're trying to gain a certain amount of muscle or you're trying to, you're trying to, you know, yeah, you're trying to gain muscle and your diet isn't where it needs to be. You're not eating enough protein, not eating enough food. And after a few months, you're like, oh, gosh, I've only gotten this much stronger or this much bigger. But you know the things you need to be more consistent on. And you didn't do those things.

And you've gotten this amount of results. But you haven't been putting all the work in that you need to put in. Can't get mad at what you get either. Because at the end of the day, you kind of do know what you should be doing but maybe you're short changing certain things that you're like ah getting a little extra sleep isn't that big of a deal i'm gonna stay up and play some fucking zelda tonight for a few nights in a row you know the new zelda is amazing it is did you you played it i've played a little bit of it i stopped playing a little bit i stopped playing it um i'm playing a little bit more diablo now but yeah the new zelda is great damn you don't even know what diablo is which is good yeah what yeah i don't know you don't want to know what it is not a good fun game okay sidetrack for all my nerds in the audience for all the nerds in the

audience the funny thing about the diablo game okay is that like so many 30 plus year olds are into that game because diablo came out when you were like a kid yeah when i was i remember i think it was like seventh grade and a buddy was like oh i got this devil worshiping game diablo and i was like whoa i don't think i want to mess with that but this was back when it was i think maybe only on pc yeah and like he brought the box to school and it was this big you know because pc games back in the day were fucking the size of like a poster the box was like exciting when you saw the box. And it had like a phone book's worth of like information on the

inside like anyway. I remember so they came out with an app recently that like blew up and people were spending tons of money on Diablo but everyone was really excited for this new one that came out. I personally have only played like a tiny bit of it. It does look pretty freaking awesome,

but I just haven't got into it. My brother Chris has PTSD over the original Legend of Zelda. Oh, yeah. What happened? Do you know the story? No, but I can imagine. That game was hard. So my brother Chris, he played it day and night,

day and night, day and night, plays it forever. I played it a lot, too. I liked it. Oh, you did? Okay. I mean, when you go back and look at it, it's like such a crap game it's terrible yeah it's horrible but anyway um he played it for months and months and months gets to the end character and then my brother mad dog swipes in and ends up beating the main guy and he's like i finished it

my brother's like what he's like yeah i finished it i beat gannon or whatever the main guy and he's like i finished it my brother's like what he's like yeah i finished it i beat gannon or whatever the main guy was and uh chris bell yeah he still has ptsd you guys should ask him about it dang that's and he loves the new zelda on switch too yeah he's all fired up about it yeah okay this is actually pretty interesting uh we're gonna we're on topic but how do you guys feel about like do you you don't play video games at all do you not anymore right no and you but i'm probably gonna take a switch with me when i travel to iceland this weekend good why not right what games mario kart for sure we played that in the airport before mario kart um i don't know what

else you could there's tons of legend of zelda there you go yeah yeah yeah yeah i currently i'm happy to hear this i'm happy to hear like you know i like video games yeah yeah okay yeah i'm currently not playing anything and i haven't for the longest like time since before getting an xbox you're playing your personal street fighter right now you got a tournament coming up yeah that's probably part of it but yeah yeah i always loved worms that was my favorite this is a deep cut i know remember y'all talked about this i think i i think i might have the cartridge i can just like let you hang on to it forever right because i'll let you borrow a game and i'll never see it again but i have that yeah worms is so good you throw a sheep at the other guy

all right can you pull up some worms real quick it's not very exciting to look at yeah it is good like to like to understand that you could play video games and still perform at a high level at other things because people people i think they put video games and like and other things like video games you're a loser no no you just got to balance things out, man. Yeah, balance it out. I think it's a form of entertainment, right? Mm-hmm. My son ruined all my games, so.

What do you mean? He took them out of this cupboard that we had him in, and he would just throw them all over the place when he was a little kid. Oh, dude, so many memories of this game. And the water level is rising the entire time. That's so much fun. So time is of the essence. Oh, you you're gonna get some of that residual yeah and you get to blow the guy up you just killed yourself oh there's dynamite see yep i knew it the other guy blows up those banana grenades are ridiculous oh

yeah so powerful the banana goes all over the place. So how did we get here? I don't know, I'm excited. Andrew, let me ask this, because obviously you're getting ready for a tournament right now, and I think you got something that kind of falls in line pretty well with this. So what's been going on with you? Well, so I can just fast forward to our conversation that we had on the phone, which I'm very grateful for, so thank you. So yesterday, yeah, yesterday um physically i was good like i didn't gas out i had energy throughout the open

mat and throughout class everything was like physically feeling really good but midway through class i was just doing a lot of dumb stuff like i was uh grabbing the left sleeve with my left hand and then grabbing the right collar with my left hand and then grabbing the right collar with my right hand so i'm like doing this yeah you're just doing shit that you shouldn't be doing and that i've never done before i'm like what i don't even know what's going on a couple of like oh he's coming this way and he's gonna pass my guard what do i do oh way too late like dude i don't know what's going on here like I was getting frustrated so mentally I was gassed physically I was good mentally not so much so you know with with my tournament coming up

a week from this Saturday so a week and a couple of days I'm thinking in my head okay what do I do do I keep banging my head on this wall and work really hard this week and then next week taper off and kind of like regain some of this mental capacity or do I take a break tomorrow which is today and then get back after it Friday and maybe a little bit more Saturday and then continue on next week as planned so when I was talking to Nsema I think you'll say it better than me but basically I was asking him for help like dude what what route should I take and then you had a really good answer, which you can go ahead and just share.

Oh, well, I pretty much just wanted to know, like, how you felt about training the next day. If, like, you were looking forward to it or if, like, it felt, like, kind of stressful. Yeah, yeah. And so my answer to that was, no, I am looking forward to training. However, in my head, the way I feel right now, I think taking a break might serve me better than going in and training and trying to pick up what little pieces off of the ground that I might be able to. And then that's when you're like, then that's enough to be able to just say, Hey, I'm going to chill out, rest, maybe lift, do something light. And then Friday, go back and get

after it. This reminds me a little bit of diet sometimes. Sometimes you're dieting pretty hard. Maybe you're fasting and then you like overdo a fast and you're like, oh, man, I don't have because you can't make something out of nothing, right? So sometimes your body literally needs more nutrients. Sometimes your body needs more rest. And part of being a champion, you know, part of trying to get better at something is the ability to shut things down, is the ability to turn things but you're going to be out. It's going to be you. You'll be by yourself basically.

And you have to be the one that takes control of your own life and you have to be the one that dictates when you take a nap, when you go to bed, when you do shut things down because if you can't recover from stuff, it's going to be – people can get through a lot and they can overtrain and you can kind of adapt to some of that, but it's not a great way to really truly make progress. And also I think the three of us, we love what we do. We love these other things that we do, but they're all as much of a part

of a life. They are as much as they are a huge part of our life. They're simply a part of our life. We all have significant others. We all have other things. We all have other responsibilities that we would like to do just as well in. And so because of that, we're not sinking just everything, all resources into one thing. It's a little different. There might be some guys that can kind of live on the mat and they could just be there all day and get staph infection and everything else and just kind of hang out and become part of the mats. But, you know, not everybody wants that. Some people want to try to have a little bit more balance and some equanimity in their

life and in their day to day. And, you know, one thing that is, I think, really cool to think about is, Andrew, you started jujitsu seven months ago, eight months ago, maybe. I'm not sure. November. November. Mark, you've been running for a while now uh multiple years but i think you've been you got serious with it maybe about a year ago it's about right yep right but you mentioned something when you were talking to russ he's like you're running five miles a day like when you think about that like uh is that a safe assumption like usually like five miles a day. Like when you think about that, like is that a safe assumption? Like usually like five miles on average.

Yeah, pretty normal, yeah. Pretty normal and pretty chill for you, right? But the amount of time it took you to build up to that, you didn't just see someone running those types of miles and you're like, I'm going to start running five miles a day. I'm going to beat myself. Andrew, you didn't just start training jujitsu four times a week when you first started because you would have fucked yourself up. And I think that when you're trying to progress at something,

you can see the training splits of what a lot of higher level people are doing. And sometimes you want to make progress. So you feel that you need to do that, but you got to be smart enough to be consistent and start where you are. So if that's trying to do something, maybe a mile a day or like a mile one day or a mile three days a week for running and that's where you are right now, that's what your body can handle. Be smart enough to start there, recover and see what you can do and see how you can progress because this quote again, don't get mad at the results you didn't get from the work you

didn't do. There's a lot of work you need to do to be able to run five miles a day. And if you're mad that you can't run five miles a day, well, why are you trying to start there? You know what I mean? You need to slowly inch yourself up towards that. And it took you like a year and a half. It takes a lot of time. I'm helping Nadav who helps produce Tom Segura's podcast.

He's going to be running the New York City Marathon. Oh, he's really doing it. I believe so. I told him, I said, I'll run right with you. But what I told him was, and this was like two days ago, I just said, from now until Sunday, I want you to go on a 20-minute walk. And five times during the 20-minute walk, I want you to jog, not run, just jog for 30 seconds. And then let, you know, we'll reassess from there. But like how small amount of work is that in comparison to running a marathon? The marathon's not till November. So he would still

have a tremendous amount of work to do. It's still a huge hill to climb because that's, you know, that's not that many months away really right to get there but he still can't start at a place that he he has to start in a spot that's going to allow his body to recover yes because if i was like hey man go see how it feels to run two miles he'd be like hey man i think i sprained my ankle you know probably report back and be like man i threw something out in my back or my leg is weird and now he can't run again. So the main thing that's going to be helpful in that situation is for him to be able to build consistency. And how can he get consistency?

Well, the intensity needs to be reduced. And this could go with anything that you're trying to do in your life, whether you're trying to be an entrepreneur or you're trying to get better at running or jujitsu or anything, if you would like to go to jujitsu every day, then the duration needs to be pulled down, the amount of time you spend there, or the intensity needs to be altered a bunch. And you have to be honest with yourself about that. And that's, this is where things get to be really difficult. If you take your diet for per se, and I think that this is probably the ultimate spot for the, for this quote to land is, is in people's diets. And if you were to say, you know what, I'm allowing myself, um, allow myself 250 calories to 300 calories a day to kind of eat a little bit of whatever I want. Like sounds reasonable, right? Yeah. Even for someone trying to lose weight, sounds reasonable. Like you ate really

good the whole day. You're still in what we can agree upon as like a caloric deficit or sometimes maybe maintenance calories. You're exercising a lot. You made a lot of other great changes. And at the end of the night, you want to, um, I don't know, you want to eat something that's slightly off plan. Sounds reasonable. Like that's worked for other people. But are you going to actually be able to stick to that? Or are you going to eat 500 calories or 750 calories and not really pay attention to the rest of it, not really count it, not really track it? It's the thing that you don't track.

I always found that interesting. And that's what I always hated about when people tracked i'm like whenever they go off their diet they don't track a lot of that stuff when somebody would like binge it's like that's the that you should be tracking track all this don't don't bother tracking your chicken breast and your broccoli i don't think that's necessary but track when you eat a peanut butter cup that makes more sense yo don't lose your train of thought. Those Quest peanut butter cups? Those are good. Oh, hell yeah. Those are money. Those are really good.

Quest has taken over that whole section in Walmart. You guys notice that? You guys see that? I'm the one who empties that section out. Oh, that's you. That's me. That and those Cheez-It cracker looking things. Those are good. I have some in my car if you guys want any snacks.

Those are money. Yeah, I did lose my train of thought ah fuck no no I'm kidding you know when you get to the end of the day you kind of halfway are oblivious to the amount of calories you ate you recognize that you kind of overdid it but you keep weighing yourself every day and you're like I don't understand

I haven't really lost a pound. I am following it. I'm working so hard. And each day, maybe you are doing your cardio. Maybe you are lifting. Maybe you are following through on just about everything else. But there's some little form of self-sabotage that I don't know if those things creep in because your, your body or your mind or your spirit is not ready to

become that new thing yet, that new person yet. And it's like, it's like you got to slay a dragon kind of, you know, you hear Jordan Peterson talking about it. And I think some people are like, what the fuck is he talking about? A dragon? I don't have a dragon inside my body, but maybe you do, you know, maybe you do have something that's like tough to defeat from your past. Maybe it's a, could sometimes be like stress or anxiety. Like we all deal with those things differently. Maybe when you're in a stressful situation or if you had a, like a, what you would consider to be a negative day or a long day that was stressful, maybe you're more in tune with like being like, I'm going to do what

I want to do tonight rather than what I'm supposed to do. And I'm going to eat some pizza because that's going to make me feel good. But again, you can't get upset with the, you know, with you're trying to get these particular results. You're trying to lock these things down, but you're not actually doing the correct work and the precise work.

And it also takes time. Your diet being intact for a day, two days, three days, four days, seven days, it's not enough. And that's what sucks about it. But it has to be, I would say out of like a month, we need 27, 28 good days for you to start to really notice some profound changes. That's a lot of work. Yes, it is. That's a lot of work. Now, if those three or four days are off so much that you binged, you still might not make any progress. And that's what really sucks about it.

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actually perfect to pull up real quick um because it kind of falls a bit in line with this you can't think your way into the mood that you seek or the state of mind that you aspire to inhabit. Action is the only thing that can trigger that change state. When you think about that in the context of our daily lives, like let's just use running, for example, like if you wake up in the morning and you're supposed to do a run because you're training for some race and you don't feel like doing it, we all resort to that state where we think, well, I don't want to do it right now. I'll just wait until I feel like doing it and then I'll do it then. And when we engage that way, we end up never

doing it, right? Like if you're waiting until you feel like doing something, chances are you're probably never going to get to it. But to take the action despite how you feel about it is the thing that catalyzes the state change. And in my case, or anybody who's a runner, they'll tell you when they finish the run, they're always glad that they did it. They don't generally regret it. And then they feel better. And I think that that example is applicable to all areas of life. By the way, you guys know, this is the contradictory fuckery between these two different quotes is so funny because it's like we're just talking about listening to yourself and pulling back when you need to. And then now we're talking about, well, sometimes you just need to take the action that you know you should be taking to move yourself forward.

It's a weird juggling act to figure out when you need to pull back and when you need to just grind through the shit that you got to do. I love what he said right there about almost like you can't like outwit yourself. You know, there's a quote from Alan Watts and he says, um, if you're going, if you're going to, uh, if you owe people money and you're going to skip town, you can't go and tell them, you know, you can't, you can't go and say, Hey man, I'm gonna skip town and be like, Hey, where's my 50 bucks. Uh, but with your, with yourself, you know, you can't go and say, hey, man, I'm going to skip town and be like, hey, where's my 50 bucks? But with yourself, you know, you can't like you can't just skip town on yourself. Like you're going to know when you owe yourself something or when you're supposed to do something at certain times. And you can't necessarily, maybe you can a little bit, but you can't completely outthink your mood.

but you can't completely outthink your mood. And that's what he started out by saying in the beginning is he was kind of saying like, I can't just think myself into a better mood. Now, I think that you can a little bit. I think that smiling and being nice to people and having a positive attitude and having your thoughts directed in those areas can assist. But you'll notice on some days when you do that, there's still

not much there. And you're like, eh, it's not really working today. I'm trying to fake it, but I still haven't hit my own happy spot yet. And what he refers to later is to, uh, hey now, what he refers to later is just get yourself moving. So we talk about it all the time, going on a walk. It's probably what we'll do after this podcast because we're going to do a couple other podcasts.

Getting your body in motion is going to be the thing that will most likely set you off into a better mood. Once you get yourself in motion, and I want to suggest this to everybody because I really pulled way back. I don't mess around with, at the't, I don't mess around with, uh, at the, at the moment, I don't mess around with energy drinks. I cut way back on Kratom and a bunch of other stuff. And what I found was that if I just start exercising,

that I don't need anything. If I just start something, then I'm usually good. Even sometimes with this podcast, if I just start the podcast and I start getting into talking with you guys, I don't necessarily need to sip on anything so i it's just been something i've been thinking about a little bit more and i'm like let me just now there are times when i go and run i'm like man it's kind of hot out and i get that that voice that mark allen was talking about yeah i start whining and bitching why are you such a bitch man my left calf is kind of hurting today if you guys don't know just check out the podcast with Mark Allen my whiny voice is a little higher pitch yeah

but so I will get into those situations and I then I'm like oh let me let me hit up a little creative that's gonna make it a little easier I don't have to sludge through this run and deal with this many negative thoughts or that's where I might rely on music or switching from a podcast to music

or something like that. I'm sorry. I'm just remembering Mark Allen. Guys, you need, I don't know if we could even put in a snippet. Let's just edit a snippet right here. I've done this before. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

This ain't no big thing. You know what I mean? I like how you have this like altered ego, other voice. I wonder if this was going on when you were doing these triathlons it's just too perfect yeah most of the times he's like yeah i just felt like it and he changed his face and it's like man mark is he kind of crouched down he's crouched down yeah but you know what we were just talking about um i i all the time as

we're implementing different things from different guests that come on, I'm able to feel a little bit better and a little bit better. They're just things that become easier. But certain days, sometimes maybe I'm feeling a little bit tired. So I'm like, okay, maybe I won't roll my back on those balls right now. Maybe I can just skip that. And then I end up regretting it later. There's just certain things that you know you should be doing on a daily basis to keep feeling continuously good. But for some reason, sometimes you stop those habits or you're just like, I don't need to do this anymore. And then it creeps back be paying attention to your exercise, there are all these things, your sleep. Don't neglect the little things that helped you feel better.

There's a slack block for balance that I use every single day because I notice, oh, wow, I get off of this, my back feels a little bit springier. I get on those tune-up balls that we talked about with Jill Miller. I do those every single morning. Oh, wow, I feel so much looser. There are these, there's a cocktail of things that just have me feeling almost perfect. And I just, there's,

there's sometimes when I don't want to do those things where I just need to remind myself, if you want to keep moving forward smoothly, do the shit you know you need to do so you can keep the momentum going. Don't neglect something because you think you're okay. You'll be in a better mood that way too. You will. Because you're, you're, you know, that you got yourself ahead. You did the things that you wanted to do. Sometimes it could be something as simple as, you know, tomorrow you want to wake up and run and you want to lift and

you want to get that done first thing in the morning. When you finish that, you feel amazing. Like you, you feel like you're ahead of everybody. You're not actually ahead of anybody necessarily, but you feel like you got an extra notch on everybody. And it just makes you feel incredible. It makes you feel really good. That can set you into a good mood. So I think examining mood is a really interesting thing to do.

And I think people should think about what are things that can help set me off into a good mood? What are things that can, what are things that, what are things that are like sticky that frustrate me, that slow me down, that weigh me down? If I know for myself, like a shower, a shower always feels so good. Sometimes I'll take a shower like midday and it's like, I have a whole new start to the rest of the day again once I did that. Cause usually I'm like running or lifting in the morning and getting that stuff done a little earlier. And when I do that, it makes, it really helps me to feel a lot better. But like, what are the things, you know, what are the things that you guys maybe feel that, that are some things that kind of leave you kind of grumpy, frustrated?

Oh, dude, the morning, the phone. I really do my best just to like, I still make the mistake right now, just not to hop on something, hop on YouTube or hop on social and put something on while I'm doing other stuff in the morning. That's too many other influences of what other people's thoughts are, kind of, right? Absolutely. And I always catch myself like, why am I letting this play right now? Just focus on the things that you need to be focusing on right now. Let your mind do what it needs to do rather than letting your mind, because there is an innate comfort in distraction, right?

And I never feel good afterwards. So there's just this constant thing of like, okay, no, just put that shit away. Do the shit that you got to do. Right. I think that would be the first thing that comes to mind for me. Yeah. Um, maybe it's not the right answer you're looking for, but like, if I say I'm going to go do something and something happens and I don't do it, I'm super upset with myself. The easiest example is, all right, I'm going to go do something and something happens and I don't do it, I'm super upset with myself. The easiest example is, all right, I'm going to hit open mat at 530 tomorrow. And then like I wake up and then I, you know, blink and it's like, oh dude, it's already six. I missed it. You know,

like something like that where it's like super frustrating where ultimately it was up to me to just get up and I didn't do it. So like I kind of lied to myself. You know, that's really frustrating. But then on the other hand, I have to think, OK, why is it that like I could not get up? Like, was I pushing way too hard? So sometimes I'll maybe try to justify it that way. But no matter how hard I try, I'm always just like, damn it, like I messed up today, you know. So then I get grumpy

throughout the rest of the day. Things like that are great though, to know, like, if I just follow through on this, it's going to help me feel better. And then you can also, you know, you could look at the clock at night and be like, oh, it's nine 30 already or 10. I'm probably not going to make it. I'm just going to text the guys. I know that some of those guys are probably in bed already, but I'm just going to tell them I'm probably not going to come in or I'm not going to make it i'm just going to text the guys i know that some of those guys are probably in bed already but i'm just going to tell them i'm probably not going to come in or i'm not going to rather than the probably thing i think is a rough one sometimes if you say oh yeah i might be there or probably means you're not probably going it means you're not going so most likely yeah you should just you know but but it's a way and then if you up, then it's kind of a surprise that you made it. But I think we have to

learn what it is that we like and we have to learn what are the things that frustrate us because you don't really, I don't think you have to be in a bad mood. You're going to have some days that are better than others. I don't think that we're meant to like be super happy all the time. You're going to have some days that for whatever reason, you just are happier, but there are small things that you can do. Staying away from your phone's a good one. Something like playing some music, like just sometimes when I take a shower in the morning, I'll just play some music or sometimes later in the evening, whenever I pop in the shower, I'll play music or listen to a podcast. I don't know. It's just the rhythm of the music the music just you know can

help soothe you calm you down transfer you into a good mood rather than you being like you know frustrated with all this shit that you think that you have to get to extra extra stressors yeah it is funny maybe um selfish isn't the right word but we can be pretty selfish to uh chase like happiness just use an example of like that slice of pizza or whatever like that's gonna make me selfish isn't the right word, but we can be pretty selfish to chase like happiness. Just use an example of like that slice of pizza or whatever, like that's going to make me happy. I can easily do that. But maybe avoiding it and going for a walk might do, it might serve us way better. But like, that's when we decide to not be selfish and not like want to go and do the thing that's going to help us out. So it's just weird how that, that works. I don't, I don't even know where that would come from. I think it's important that, that people try to figure out, um, like what's their like life purpose, you know, rather than just chasing

happiness. Like what is there, you don't have to really know it. Cause I don't think no one knows even why we're here and the purpose of like humans or whatever really complicated topic complicated subject but i think if you can figure out your some of your purpose then you can kind of organize these things a little bit better and you can make more sense of it and again you can just something so simple you just zoom out you start getting frustrated or you're in a crappy mood and you're thinking about the things that you should be doing if you can zoom out and say well i plan on doing this for like the next 10 or 20 years then you taking a day or two off because your ankle hurts or your knee hurts or whatever it is

isn't really a huge deal no one's gonna be like i remember he skipped class for his like for a couple he wasn't around for a couple couple weeks. We heard the stories from Mark Allen about how he would distance himself from other people so he didn't get caught up in the rat race of him comparing himself. That's a really good idea in some cases. Sometimes it's not always, you don't always have the option to do that. But in his case, he knew himself well enough to where he knows that he's probably going to try to run with this other guy or try to compare himself. And to where he knows that he's probably going to try to run with this other guy or try to compare himself. And that was the last thing he needed. He needed to go and

run his own race and do his own thing his own way. So he's like, let me just go off into the woods and do my own training my own way for a little while. You know, I don't even want to put a wrinkle in this, but it is doing that. Because there are so many people that are going to have input on what you should be doing. If you're like, again, Andrew, you're getting ready for a competition, there's probably a bunch of people like, oh, this is what you should try to do. This is what you should try to do. Or you're starting to work out in the gym and maybe you're starting a powerlifting program and you got some guys around you like, oh, you should do this program instead of that.

Maybe you're starting a powerlifting program and you got some guys around you like, oh, you should do this program instead of that. When you're newer, it's harder to hear advice because you should be trying to listen to what other people have to say and you should try to filter that. But it's harder to filter the good and the bad, like what's going to serve you and what's going to put you – what's going to move you backwards, right? But I think that's why it is very important to, even when you're newer, to try to at least get a plan set that you can stick to rather than just randomly going about it. You start jujitsu or you start lifting and you just go to the gym random days each week. Then you don't even have anything that you can set yourself into. But if you can just create something, some type of consistent plan and just try to stick to it and listen to what other people have to say, but still try to stick to your plan, adjust later and move forward. And then when you get very experienced, you can still listen to what other people have to say, but you know what you need to do to move yourself forward.

You know, it's a tough balancing act that is. Yeah. And I think you have to give yourself time to figure out, to even just understand. So the example I will give is when I first started jiu-jitsu, I was like, oh, BJJ Fanatics. I want to buy so many instructionals, and I'm going to study all the time, blah, blah, blah. And as you know and see, there's like a million instructionals. I'm like, dude, I don't even know where to start.

So now that I'm actually starting to build a game, not that I'm like, you know, it's not that it's solidified, but like I have like a course of action now. It's like, oh, I think I want to go in this direction. So I'm going to start focusing more on these types of instructionals or I'm going to ask these types of questions. But early on, I just wanted to dive in, but I had no idea what questions to even ask or what videos to pay attention to. And I got really frustrated because I'm like, well, what the heck? I'm supposed to be getting better and, you know, this and that.

And now it's like, OK, let some time pass, let some experience, you know, come in. And now I kind of have an idea of which direction I want to be going in. But early on, I couldn't figure that out. And so I did have the inputs coming in from different people left and right. And I listened to everybody. But even back then, it was just hard to understand what's going to serve me, what's not. I needed to be patient enough to allow myself to go and start to develop before I can actually start imprinting some of this information into my head.

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two things intersect what Eric Thomas said and the other guy's rich role, right? Yeah, that's rich role. Yeah, and I think where there is some intersection between the two things is, you know, you're thinking about the first quote from Eric Thomas where he's talking about how you're not going to get the results from, you know, don't complain about the results you're not getting from the shit you're actually not doing. That's like somebody just kind of like lying to themselves, right? But where the intersection would come from, I think, is from Rich Roll talking about you just need to put yourself into action. If you put yourself into action and you're doing, you just get yourself going, you're more than likely probably going to do a little bit more than you thought, than you intended, because you're already in motion. So as an example, if you're going into

the gym and you're like, I don't really want to train today, you've got the negative voices in your head, like, all right, I'm just going to do shoulders. I'm going to do a 10-15 minute workout. Let me just first warm up and see how that feels. Let me reassess how I feel. Let me block how I feel for a moment. Let me just put it off to the side for a moment. Can I do that for a moment? Okay, I'm in a crappy mood. Can I do that for just a minute?

Okay, I'm going to warm up. Oh, actually, you know what? I feel pretty good. My shoulders feel pretty good. I feel more recovered than I thought. You start doing some shoulder presses and stuff and you start handling some decent weight and you're like, oh shit, okay, this is a pretty good workout. You start doing your lateral raises and next thing you know, 15 minutes went by. You're like, I'm going to do some triceps and you hit

another body part and you get a workout in that you didn't think you otherwise would just because you simply had the guts to give it a chance you know give it a moment like don't always overreact to how you feel right away because you only feel a particular way because you're not doing anything so of course you don't feel of course you don't feel like doing anything when you have a bunch of other options and you're sitting inside of air-conditioned house and you got your video games out and you got access to the internet. It's the same thing we deal with kids. They have access to a lot of other things.

So, of course, when you go into your child's room and say, hey, let's go to the park, they're like, nah. You're like, huh? I thought kids loved going to the park. You have to say, put your tablet away, turn your TV off, put your phone away, let's go to the park and they're like okay because now they don't have any other options anymore so i think sometimes

we got to do that to ourselves like don't give yourself other options i've heard of jaco willing talking about just doing the thing without like flinching, like unflinching discipline. Like if you do it before you start to really think about it, that's a really good spot to be. Or the moment that you think about it. As soon as some sort of negative comes in, you block it right away. You can also sometimes like if that voice pops in on a Wednesday and you're thinking about Thursday practice, that's when you can have a moment and think about it. And you could do again what Mark Allen did where he went, just take a breath, take a moment and say, I feel really tired. It probably doesn't make any sense

as tough as I want to be and as strong as I want to be and as good as I want to be for this jujitsu tournament. I've been training really, I have been training really hard and the input I'm going to get tomorrow is probably not going to be great if I can't really show up the way I want to. I know Friday is when we have a really good class. There's really good energy in there. Let me call someone that knows something about jujitsu, call in S sema get some information and now tomorrow was it tomorrow's friday right now now tomorrow you're gonna be all fired up like you're gonna be fired up tonight i'm fired up right now yeah you might not go you might not be able to go to bed because of the you know because you're gonna be thinking you'll be

charged up because you reserved your energy for another day but give yourself a moment don't always be so bummed out by the current thoughts that you have and the way that you're thinking about something right now um every person you know everyone's ever everyone's been through some sort of breakup at some point and the way that you feel about someone immediately after the breakup like it's pretty damaging fucking whore whore bag but you give it a couple give it a couple months or give it two years or give it 10 years when you're with somebody else like you barely remember that person yeah i don't know what they're doing they're worthless yeah where's the camera right there yeah right into her soul making it weird yeah you're absolutely right i already had a

talked to a buddy of mine about like doing some drills later and he was like no let's just work on it tomorrow i'm like okay cool that's that's move. Cause yeah, I am fired up and I'm just, I am, I'm obviously nervous for everything, but I'm pretty, I'm fired up and I'm excited. Like I, my, uh, I got a screenshot of my division, which before was only like two guys. And then now I think it's, uh, I forgot how many people, but it's going to take at least, I think three matches if I'm going to get gold. And then, so, which means I got got to win a couple times to even podium. So it's enough people to where I can't just walk in and get a medal.

So, yeah, I'm going to have to put in some work. It's like the Royal Rumble, right? Like a new person comes in every minute, and you've got to throw them over the top rope, right? And then if you can't get them off, there's going to be like six dudes on the mat with one ref trying to just keep us all in line, there's going to be like six dudes on the mat with one ref trying to just keep us all in line. That's going to be sick.

How often do you think you might want to compete? Dude, I honestly, I do not know. I would like to see and answer that question after this competition. So this is the reason why I asked you that question. I think like because no matter what happens in the competition, it's probably not going to be your only one. So I would say like maybe afterwards you sign up for another one or even before it starts, like just look for one another one in this organization is that that might be close and just sign up for it. Yeah. I do like, I like the, uh, the motivation to train. And then something else too, I was, I was talking to my buddy Chris about, I was like,

I had this weird thought in my head that like, by this date, I had to have like a perfectly to train and then something else too i was i was talking to my buddy chris about i was like i had this weird thought in my head that like by this date i had to have like a perfectly well-rounded game and i was gonna go in there and then hit me uh not too long ago i'm like you're just progressing it hasn't doesn't freaking matter that you don't have the perfect guard game with the perfect offensive game and it seems just cracking up like crazy right now i'm sorry but the that's the thing though like when it comes to like putting so much pressure on myself i was just like no do like you're just gonna get better like it doesn't matter right so with that thought that's where i was like i like this i like that i am i am trying to get better for this event but i understand understand that it's not the finish line.

And then when I said that, I was like, oh, I think we're going to probably be doing this for a while, competing. We'll probably do this again. Oh, you will. And then we'll keep going from there because it's just cool, man. It's almost like all the training days are to get better, and then this is the test, and then we just kind of go back to the drawing board and we just keep going that way whereas before it was training was the test and then now it's like okay after this everybody listening that's competed is just gonna laugh because it just it all hit me kind of all at once i'm like oh after this i'll be able to figure out what holes i have

in my game and it's like i'll be able to see what I'm pretty good at. And then we'll just keep adding and stacking and going from there. So yeah, I would imagine I would compete after this, but like I said, I will see if like, I just absolutely hate it for some weird reason. And then we'll go from there. Don't even put that thought in your mind.

I know, but I'm just saying, cause like, I just, when I first started, I was asked like, Oh, do you plan on competing?

And I'm like, I don't know. I got to see if I even like jujitsu and instantly fell in love with it and here we are right before your first match you're gonna say to yourself i'm never gonna put myself through this shit again but then as soon as that match gets going you're gonna love it yeah i never did that but i've done stuff that that's, that's scary, where right beforehand, you're like, okay, I am definitely never going to do this again. What about public speaking? I don't know if you guys have ever gotten nervous for that, but I never liked that when I was a kid.

Fucking hated it. And I was like, okay, hopefully don't ever ask me to do that again. If that never happens again, I'll be excited. You'll be good. You're a great public speaker now. Yeah. You got, you get used to it.

You gotta, you gotta pop that cherry. Oh yeah. Speaking of, do you guys like those cherries? Yeah. My stomach's finally chill again. It's even ate like two pounds of cherries.

Yeah. I kind of downed it kind of fast. In like three minutes. Homegrown. You know, it's so stupid, man. For some reason,

I have a tendency of like, if there's a bottle of water my thing is just like i didn't get enough and i'll just i'll just finish it i can't just have a can of something or a bottle of something and let myself enjoy it my tendency is just take it down as fast as you can how frustrating is it when you have a protein shake and you think you have enough for like a big solid gulp and then you go for a drink and it was just like a sip? It's already gone pretty much. You're just like, it's so frustrating.

I'll make another one. It is what it is, y'all. It's tough to enjoy stuff that way when you just inhale it, you know, but it's hard to slow down when something's really good. Especially if it's that steak shake. I made the cinnamon roll steak shake for my family. So I just blended it with ice. Did it pass the test? Dude, they all said it tastes like horchata.

Have you ever had that? I think so. It's like cinnamon Mexican rice water or some shit like that. Rice milk. Dude, it was really good. It's the thing that's splashing around next to the cash register, right? Yep, yep, yep. When you go to order the food.

Next to the chips and salsa. Yeah. Yeah. That shit's so good. I know what you're talking about. And then there's like orange stuff too. What's that? I'm not sure.

Honestly, I don't know. Maybe that's just the place I go to. No, no, no. I know what you mean. I just don't know. That's a common theme. That's a common theme. I know they have like tamarindo

and a couple other things, but for the most part, I have no clue. I just know. It's so hot when you pull out your... Tamarindo. That's what my wife says. I'm like, Hey, papi, keep it going.

Just whips it out. You know why Stephanie likes it? Yeah. Hey, now. I mean, it always comes out when I'm ordering food, so that's when she gets fired up, too. She's like, order more food. What is it? A jubilee van.

No, don't. I remember in elementary school once i learned that for like my my mixed friends would be like oh what is it uh down the street from my house is uh what guadalajara right yeah that's a good one that place is really good the one the one in woodland is better you don't want to get burritos after this? Maybe after the hump. Oh, my God. I think I still got to drop like a pound. I don't know exactly. I know Jiu-Jitsu World League, their scales are pretty soft, but I just don't want to have to worry about it. Oh, you'll be fine.

Does El Patio pass the test or is that not Mexican? Yeah, it does. No, it does. Their flautas are really good because they have like just a pile of just all this like guac, sour cream, lettuce, all that good stuff. They have some sort of weird green salsa avocado sauce that's ridiculous too. Yeah, that's a little bit Americanized, but it's worth it. That shit's really good.

They throw it on like their French fries. They have like meat and cheese on them. Yeah, I saw the fries. How about Chipotle? Chipotle? Chipotle. Does that pass the Mexican test? No, but it's good.

Of course not. Yeah, but it's good though. No hating on that. Okay, I have Chip good. Of course not. Yeah, but it's good though. Yeah, it's good. No hating on that. And Chipotle, yeah. I like the chips. The chips are really good. The chips are fucking good.

With the lime salt. They do a great job with their chips. And it's awesome. Guys, you shouldn't be eating chips. Stop. But it's awesome when you get like a big old chunk of salt on it too. It's so good. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Apparently they're making, I don't know if they have it on the menu now. Let's go check. But they have like a meat and cheese quesadillas. So like that's on the menu. Like keto tacos or something, right? No, no, no, no, no. Or did I see that?

Like straight up quesadillas, except now they'll put like their meat in it. Dang. I think they're coming out with that on the menu. Oh, man. Chipotle has some good quesadillas already, but now they add meat to that bitch. Quesadillas got to be like one of the simplest tastiest things ever i was a quesadilla king as a kid bro i just want to get cheese and tortillas please yeah i'd be eating so many quesadillas man so good yeah yeah i remember when i learned how to use the stove and i just started making quesadillas and all kinds of fun stuff yeah you-huh. You're going to have to teach us.

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