Mark Bell's Power Project - Power Project EP. 116 - Do What You Love

Episode Date: September 20, 2018

Today we are talking about making things easy and doing what you love to do. Mark Bell recalls how some of his favorite role modles would dissect obstacles and convince everyone that they would over come them. Below are links to videos Mark mentions on the podcast and recommends you watch, listen and learn from them as well. Dana White interview: https://youtu.be/z1Egtm5g7LE GREATNESS IS MINE: https://youtu.be/ob25dpUYE74 Rewatch the live stream: https://youtu.be/RpDgsR_oi9g ➢SHOP NOW: https://markbellslingshot.com/ Enter Discount code, "POWERPROJECT" at checkout and receive 15% off all Sling Shots ➢Subscribe Rate & Review on iTunes at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mark-bells-power-project/id1341346059?mt=2 ➢Listen on Stitcher Here: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/mark-bells-power-project?refid=stpr ➢Listen on Google Play here: https://play.google.com/music/m/Izf6a3gudzyn66kf364qx34cctq?t=Mark_Bells_Power_Project ➢Listen on SoundCloud Here: https://soundcloud.com/markbellspowerproject FOLLOW Mark Bell ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marksmellybell ➢ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarkBellSuperTraining ➢ Twitter: https://twitter.com/marksmellybell ➢ Snapchat: marksmellybell Follow The Power Project Podcast ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MarkBellsPowerProject Podcast Produced by Andrew Zaragoza ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamandrewz

Hello? John Cena. John Cena is in China, and I told him that I'm going to rescue him. And he said he doesn't need rescuing. And I said, it's too late because I've already dug a hole and I'm on my way. And then he said, I'll buy you some dumplings when you arrive, is what he told me. So is he trapped right now or we're just assuming that they're not letting him leave? I don't know.

I think he's doing fine. I think he's having fun, but like, I just, I don't know. It sounds like he needs help. He's been over there for a long time. All the guy does is like, he just, he's living off of meal replacement powder. How come? Because that's just what he does.

He's weird. Oh, and he just stays jacked. Yeah, well, he has meal replacement powder. He eats like twice a day. And that's what he does. He doesn't have time. He ain't got time for all these choices. It kind of makes sense.

You have the same thing every day. Doesn't blow your stomach apart. He probably trains in the morning. Gets the shit out of the way. Works all day. Has a meal replacement. Takes a giant shit. Hangs out with some Chinese people.

Does some movie stuff. Takes another poop. Right? I don't know. Has some dumplings. Takes a dump. I feel like I could keep up with that. Yeah.

Sounds like a good schedule. Especially if it's the same meal replacement stuff. Then by time, like a couple weeks in, your stomach will be so used to it. If you have real food, you'll just get sick. I know. I like protein shakes. I don't know. It's always been a route for me.

I have a scoop of protein with every meal right now just uh easier than like trying to eat a lot of food all the time yeah and uh it kind of blew me away after the show yesterday we asked well i asked charles i'm like hey well then what what is whey protein oh and he's like that's just kind of stuff that they have no idea what to do with so they make it into powder and yeah i'm like oh yeah cool thanks yeah they scrape it off the top i mean they've been using it for other things for years and uh you know they you kind of heard of like eating curds and whey right like they yeah but nobody yeah nobody really knows what it is whey is um not very palatable doesn't very good. So people never nearly knew what to do with it. And then somebody discovered that there's tons of amino acids and protein in

it. And so they turned it into a supplement, I guess. Who knows? What will they think of next? Anyway, I was, uh, you know, as many people know, I'm always kind of searching for these different things of motivation, inspiration, education. I think education is the key to a lot of things. I think education is going to be the things that thing that helps cause the most amount of change. Inspiration, motivation can kind of spark you to go off in one direction. It can kind of put that first foot forward. Um, but education is really, is really crucial. So like, I'll give you an example. Um, take my dad, for example, my dad was motivated, inspired by something I said, but also he used previous history and he used some education to come to the conclusion

of, I need to get my ass in the gym. So I talked about consistency on this podcast, which we constantly talk about consistency on this podcast because it's the most important thing. If you don't develop consistency, it's going to be hard to get anywhere. If you do one great thing in one day, it's going to be hard to get anywhere. If you do one great thing in one day, it's going to be hard to reproduce that. It's going to be hard to turn it into anything. It's hard to have any sort of accumulation. So we need to have consistency in order to lose weight. We need to have consistency in order to gain muscle. We need to have consistency in order to gain strength and have consistency in order to gain wealth. to have consistency in order to gain wealth.

We even need to have some consistency to develop ourselves enough to be able to handle anything that comes our way. So even if you were to just all of a sudden $2 million gets dumped on your head, that'd be fantastic. But if you're a bonehead, it might not really change your life because you're just going to buy some cool-ass car or truck with it. You're going to buy some cool-ass house with it. And you're probably going to do a couple of other dumb things, and then you're going to blow it. You're going to give some away to some friends and some family,

and before you know it, you ain't going to have shit again because maybe you didn't develop strong enough to begin with to even kind of hold on to some of that so we talk about that consistency a lot but back to the education um i got my dad photo fired up about talking about consistency and he's been going to the gym for 30 some odd days in a row and uh he's under 200 pounds my dad's only like 5'2 so for him to be 200 pounds he ends up looking like quite the spicy meatball uh i think he uh ends up sometimes uh being 220 230 240 and so on and that's just way too heavy for his height. So, uh, when I was talking about being consistent, I was kind of saying like, you know, how does somebody have the strength to be a good dad day in and day out, but, but lack the strength in these other areas?

Like, how is it possible? How can I, how can I have him up so high on my uh totem pole of great people you know with the jay cutlers and and ed cones and these different people how can i have him ranked so high but then how could he be so weak in this one category you know and so we were talking about that and uh we're talking about just figuring out a way to get consistent and having the strength inside you to say you know what i'm not, you know what? I'm not going to take it anymore. I'm not going to be like this anymore. I'm going to make myself better. And so my dad started training. He started working out and he started making some really strong

changes. But where the education of it all comes in, it comes from him just having the understanding of, I need to make this change i have to go through this so the motivation inspiration yes it did come from me it came from me saying you know hey like all like all you have to do in order to lose weight is be consistent just start moving and it's going to start to cause some change but he was smart enough to internalize that information, take that information and say, you know what? That's a really great message. I'm motivated and inspired to go do that today.

But in order for him to continue to go, he has to understand that it's good for his body and it's good for him to do. If I tell you consistently that going for a 10 minute walk is good for you and that you should do two of them every day, maybe you'll do one today and maybe you'll do one tomorrow because you're motivated. And maybe you'll do one today because you're inspired. But if you don't know why you're doing it, if you don't understand the purpose of it, if you don't maybe understand that it can help with insulin resistance, if you don't

understand that it could help with your blood pressure, if you don't understand that it could help manage your weight, if you don't understand that it's just good general health practice, if you don't understand that it could be beneficial to your mental health, if you don't understand that going out and getting some sunlight and some vitamin D could be critical to many things to your body, your skin, your bones, your heart. I mean, the list goes on and on of the things that can benefit you from walking and from getting outside. But if you don't understand these things, maybe it's not enough to get you off the couch. But I might say something

that gets you fired up or inspired to do something for one day, but that's not enough. It's got to come from the education. And this kind of leads us to this topic of today. So I go out for these walks every morning. I wake up at about five 30. Uh, many of you that followed along with the bodybuilding stuff saw that I was waking up at like three o'clock in the morning and eating and different things, but I've, I've changed my routine up quite a bit. Um, I would love to still wake up really early like that, but, uh, my schedule for right now is not allowing it. I'm trying to get more sleep. I'm trying to take care of that side of things too because, again, kind of back to the education thing, I learned a valuable lesson in all that.

That was a good way to kind of grind things out, but it was also only good for a period of time. You're going to compromise your health if you're trying to compromise your sleep too much. And so you have to make room for sleep. And so anyway, wake up about 530. It's about the same time my wife wakes up to go to swim practice every morning. And by the way, my wife is awesome. She's been swimming every day. Let's see, last week she swam every day, all five days. And then this week, I think she's done the same.

And she's lost about six or seven pounds which i always think she looks amazing anyway but andy bell is crushing it and she looks awesome so congrats to her i know i know like you know it's not about it's not always so much about like the look but it's about how people feel she feels better she feels prettier she feels sexier shit that works out great for me right it works out great for me. Right. It works out great for everybody. Like when somebody feels better, um, I feel better for them. I'm happy for them. I'm excited for them, whether it's my wife or someone in the office or whatever. It's just cool. So she's, she's doing a great job. Um, but as I'm going on these walks, I'm listening to these

different, uh, YouTube videos usually. Now, everybody on this podcast always preaches that you have to read. And most of the people that I listen to that talk about success, some of the rules for success, reading almost always factors in there. I would say reading and health are like two things that are always there. Reading, health, family, like those are things that are, they're always there. And those are all things that we could figure out how to make time for. There's no real genetic component to any of those things. Doesn't matter if you're seven feet tall or five feet tall. It doesn't matter if you're male or you're female, you can make time for family. You can make time to read and, you know, you could, you can make time for family. Uh, you can make time to read and, uh, you know, you could, you can figure out the, some of these different, uh, rules. You can make time

for your health. Right. Um, but as I'm going on these walks, I, instead of, instead of like reading or listening to ebook or listen to a podcast, I tend to just listen to YouTube videos. And I, I go to great lengths of kind of searching out a lot of different things. And a lot of times when I'm going to a coffee shop, that's when I'm kind of searching for these things. And I'm always trying to seek out the next best video. And when I was doing a lot of my cardio sessions for the bodybuilding show, these things became more and more important. And it was hard to find things that were good. It really was.

It was hard to find things that were good because the things that are common usually aren't great. They're just too common. They're shared too much and they're just kind of overdone. And sometimes those things are great. But anyway, I found this one piece from Dana White where Dana White was talking about the UFC and was talking about selling the UFC. And you guys should try to look it up online.

We will share the link with you. I'll try to send it over to Andrew right now as we're doing the podcast. But it was a fantastic interview that was done by Tony Robbins. I know, I know, I know. Everyone's getting all upset. People tend to flare up about Tony Robbins. I know, I know, I know everyone's getting all upset. People tend to flare up about Tony Robbins.

I happen to like Tony Robbins, but, um, anyway, it was, uh, it was awesome. Dana White talked about,

uh, building up the UFC over a long period of time. He talked about how he was able to sell the UFC, um, and how the UFC isc is now worth seven billion dollars or six billion dollars somewhere in that neighborhood and uh how he almost lost it several times they almost sold it several times um he just shared a lot of great stories in there about how he had to kind of hang in there over the years, and he had to hold on to his hopes and dreams,

and how he had to stick things out. He also talked about the Fertitta brothers, who were, their dad was a casino owner. The family had a lot of money. They ultimately ended up buying the UFC, and with Dana White, they made the UFC what it is today. But what I found intriguing about it, and also at the same time, recently kind of finding out more about Elon Musk through Joe Rogan's podcast,

which I recommend you guys listen to too. I don't have any problem, by the way, sharing information with people and telling you guys, hey man, go listen to this, go read this. This came from this guy. This came from that guy. Um, I don't have any problems sharing with you that I got in shape for my bodybuilding show through knowledge that I got from Stan Efferding through knowledge that I got from Hany Rambod. Um, I'm always going to be transparent. I'm always going to give it to you guys straight. Also, you know, prepping for that bodybuilding show. I'm not afraid to say that I did my own programming. Like I did all my own lifting for that. Uh, honey gave me some suggestions. Michael Hearn gave me some suggestions,

but I did that on my own. You know, Andrew and I, uh, trained together. We worked very hard together and, uh, the results ended up being the results ended up going the way that it went. But I'm always going to tell you guys, I'm always going to give it to you guys straight because I don't think that me hiding something and me trying to claim that something came from me is going to make me any more powerful. Actually, I think it makes you stronger to tell people where things originated from.

So anyway, I highly recommend you check out that. Check out Joe Rogan's podcast as well that he did with Elon Musk. And in listening to both of these guys, I would say both these guys are insanely successful. I think, I think, I'm sorry,

Dana White, I think ended up with that UFC dealc deal making over 300 million dollars i think he said 360 million dollars um and he talks about how he already had money he also talks about why the hell would he stay and continue to work for the ufc because he now had what he called fuck you money right and he just said like well what else am i gonna do and the reason why he says that is because this is exactly what he always wanted to do and from the time he was about seven years old he knew that that he wanted to be involved in the fight business i don't think he knew exactly how or why maybe he thought he was going to be a boxing champion i know that he was always passionate about boxing i I think later on he got passionate about kickboxing.

But he always knew that he wanted to be involved in fighting in some way. And so learning that he found out at a young age that this is what he needed to do or this is what he wanted to do. And then learning that Elon Musk and some of these other people have figured out at a very young age, this is what they wanted to do. It seems like the earlier that you figure out what it is you want to actually do with your life, the sooner that you can get to it and the stronger that that is going to be

and the stronger that's going to develop. Because a lot of your hopes and dreams are probably going to be and the stronger that's going to develop. Because a lot of your hopes and dreams are probably going to be developed in the early stages of you figuring out what it is that you want to do. And if those things are kind of pushing through and those things are working out at the correct time when you're eight years old, nine years old, 10 ten years old those are some really cool years where you're developing and you are still irrational you're still like not accepting uh the world's views you're you're not uh overly influenced by what you can and can't do maybe you're like watching spongebob squarepants when you're eight and you're like, you know what? I'm going to do a voiceover for a cartoon. And then, you know, somebody else is like, wow, that's like, holy

crap. That's great. That's really cool. But then you're 11, you're 12, you're 14, you're 17. You're now 17. And you're talking about that. Someone's going to be like, uh, dude, like that's probably, that probably ain't going to happen. Like, you know, you, you should probably stay in school. Yeah. You should probably stay in school because like, whoever's doing that, like they got lucky,

they met somebody that's probably not like a goal of theirs. You know, they start whatever they're going to say. They just start really talking you out of it. And they say, they may even say negative things. Might say, Andrew,

like you don't even say two words, dude. Like you don't talk enough to do voiceover for this thing. Or your voice is dumb. You sound stupid. It's not going to sound good. No, that's part of the whole thing, though. The character's going to sound kind of lame.

Like Patrick Starr. Yeah, you're talking about dream killers, and they're everywhere. Dream killers. I can't stand those. Genius Reapers. They're everywhere. They're waiting there to steal your ideas.

You know, Dana White talks about this, how life is ready, locked and loaded and ready to go and ready to kick you in the face the second that you wake up. And now, you know, what if we just take, what if we take these ideas and these hopes and dreams and what if we really try to hang on to them? You know, first of all, we got to talk about how do we even figure out what we want to do. So we'll talk about that in a second. But you have to be a little bit irrational and you have to really hold on to your dreams despite what some other people are telling you. You can't let your dreams die. There's no reason to let them die with people that really don't know what the hell it is. You're talking about and

these people that tend to be Negative or these people that tend to give you this other advice a lot of times They're not even trying to be negative. They're trying to actually give you like a rational solution But you don't if you're trying to Be great or if you're trying to be different which i advise that you do because we have too many people being the same then you have to be a little bit irrational you have to think outside the box a little bit you have to say no i'm not doing that i don't want to do that oprah winfrey when she was uh kid, she was learning how to fold clothes for her grandma.

Her grandmother's like, Hey, you know, this is, you know, this is what we do. This is a, you know, you wash your clothes, dry your clothes. And if I can remember correctly, I think maybe she was even, man, I can't even, I hopefully I'm saying this right. Uh, I think maybe she was even washing and drying somebody else's clothes. It's like not even her own, like not even even, I hopefully I'm saying this right. Uh, I think maybe she was even washing and drying somebody else's clothes. It's like not even her own, like not even her own family. I think she was doing it for somebody else, uh, as a job. And she was like, you know, one day you're gonna have to learn this. And Oprah was like, no way.

There's no way I'm not, I'm not going to do that. Whether it was for herself or for her family or for somebody else really doesn't matter. The point is, is like, Oprah was like, no, I'm not doing that. Like, that's not going to be part of my life. Like somebody else is probably going to, I don't know if she thought to herself, someone else is going to do that for me or my life is not going to be lived like in this, uh, like domestic fashion. I'm going to go out and make a bigger, uh, I'm going to go out and have a different impact on the world. You know, I'm going to, I'm going to do something different with my life. I don't want to like live in a kitchen.

I don't want to live in a laundry room. I want to go out and, um, do something else. And so she did, but she had to kind of, I mean, her grandmother, right? Her grandmother's probably somebody she really looked up to. Probably somebody that she loved dearly. Probably somebody she'd learned a lot of great lessons from. Um, but just because you learn a lot of great lessons from. But just because you learn a lot of great lessons from somebody doesn't mean they have any clue on what it is you should do with your life.

A lot of times, the worst advice that you may ever get could come from your own mother. You know what, honey? It's not a good idea. I don't want you playing football. You're going to get hurt. And then what, right? The guy becomes a linebacker for the, you know, in the NFL for 10 years. Yeah. You know, it is maybe Khalil Mack's mom, you know, told him that when he was a kid. I mean, your parents, you know, they have, they're trying to give you what they feel is best.

And maybe even I'll you know i'm not i'm not perfect like i'm gonna probably tell my kids something stupid that goes completely opposite against what they're going to be great at like oh you know because you're trying to protect them right so that's what i was going to say like uh right before you said football because with football it's pretty obvious you're trying to protect their kids or whatnot but yeah they're just trying to protect them from failing like horrifically bad at whatever it is. Like, oh, I want to be a wrestler. Right?

Yeah, so that was my dad. My dad said that with my brother. My brother played football, and he was a really good football player. His football team was really good. My brother got a, and he was a really good football player. His football team was really good. My brother got a lot of recognition. My brother ended up going to the University of Cincinnati, and he played football.

He was moving up, and he was doing well, being a defensive tackle at the University of Cincinnati. Then he ended up with some injuries. He ended up with some this and some of that, and he moved closer to home. Then he went to Connecticut and played football. I can't remember if it was like central Connecticut or where it was exactly, but it was closer to Poughkeepsie, New York was where we're from. He wanted to be a little closer to home. I think he was a little homesick. And then on top of that,

he had an injury. So he wanted to go to school a little closer. And I think he wanted more of an opportunity to play, you know, University of Cincinnati is pretty, pretty big time football. And, uh, my brother kind of saw the painting on the wall that he probably wasn't going to get as much playing time as he wanted. Anyway, my brother goes to Connecticut and he moves up the ladder there pretty quickly and it's doing pretty well. But then, uh, again, I think he tweaks his knee or something like that and he gets done with, he's just tired of football. He's it's run its course, not good enough, whatever you want to say. And he's frustrated and he didn't go to school.

He didn't go to school to go to school. He went to school to play football. Right. And, uh, you know, he tells my dad, like, I want to come home and, um, you know, I want to follow my dream. My dream is to become a professional wrestler i don't know why i'm faking it by trying to play football and uh that's what i want to do and my dad's like he's like you're not doing that and he's like yes i am i'm coming home and my dad said

well you know you can do whatever you want but you're not living here you know so my brother went home and my brother got a bouncing job and uh within a month my brother's on which which is the very beginning version of monday night raw which is pretty crazy to think back now like monday night raw is the uh longest lasting uh television seat television tv series like in the history of america or something wow some shit like that along with like the simpsons or something i mean ww monday night raw has been on for a really long time um one of the longest lasting syndicated shows i know that anyway uh and my brother was wrestling in the manhattan center in new york city um against uh like yokozuna and against brett the hitman heart and against all kinds of people.

And my dad, you know, just was really taken back by that. My dad was like, you know what? I am never going to do that to my sons ever again. I'm never going to tell them that they're not capable of capable of doing something. I'm never going to like doubt them again. So my brother, my brother, you know, kind of paved the way for somebody like me to have some unconventional train of thought. But again, back to finding what you want to do. My brother always knew he wanted to be a professional wrestler.

I don't know what magnet grabbed a hold of him, but he was hypnotized by it. He loved it. He loved it so much that me and my brother and he loved it he loved it so much that like me and my brother chris loved it because he loved it so much i always liked wrestling but i really loved it because he loved it a lot and then chris chris you know he he genuinely loves wrestling anyway but um we all got way into it because my brother was way into it we all got into lifting because my brother was way into it for playing football and stuff like that too but you know the thing is is like he found what he wanted to do at a young age and boom there he was like with uh i don't know a year and a half or so of practice there he was

on national tv you know wrestling some of the biggest uh biggest stars that there there were at the time now you know he was on the receiving end of uh losing a lot of matches just because that's the way that's kind of the way wrestling was at that time but nonetheless he fulfilled a lot of what he wanted to do i think you know for him he had a hard time kind of fulfilling in uh some of the other things he wanted to do but he knew what he wanted to do at a very young age. And so how do you figure out what it is you want to do? Before we go any further, uh,

what was that like seeing him on TV for the first time? Um, it was, you know, it was really cool. It was also kind of weird too. You know, it was like,

uh, cause like I would go to the events live too. And, uh, that was weird too, because like, uh, you know, my parents were smart, you know, they, um, I don't know how they had like the intuition that they had, but they, they somehow, they somehow like understood the impact of things, you know?

So they would, you know, they would do stuff like, okay. You know, Monday night raw starts at like 9.00 PM and it's in New York city. So, um, I think now that I think about it, maybe it started at like six, but whatever the case is, like, you're not coming back from New York city and getting back into Poughkeepsie before like midnight anyway, you know, or later, but my parents understood the impact of like what these kind of things would do so they still took me to like those my dad still took me to those matches now it wasn't every single week but he took me to a few of them and uh you know i'd miss school

the next day or i'd go in real late the next day but i think my dad knew like hey you know what like this is this is way more important than school. Like, your big brother is wrestling in front of 10,000 people. Yeah. And like, we should go see this and we should go like, you know, check this out. And so a lot of those things are things that stood out in my head

that allowed me to kind of imagine the bigger picture and imagine that like my life could be unconventional i don't have to uh fit into any box that somebody wants to put me in because i can i can do or be uh you know kind of whatever i want so it was kind of amazing and then like yeah a couple days later uh or i think maybe my mom would tape it because it was monday night raw which was live um then we'd go back and we'd watch it and then we'd like pause and I'd be like, there I am in the corner. You know, I'd see myself like in some cheap seat somewhere.

Um, and we'd see it. We are see ourselves in the, uh, in the crowd too. I mean, I remember being there for like when, uh, the dynamite kid like came out of the crowd. Uh, that was, uh. That was X-Pac. He came out of the crowd in one of the matches, and he beat somebody. He beat Razor Ramon.

We were at a lot of these things. We saw a lot of these things unfold. I don't know. Actually, now that I think back, I don't think he came out of the crowd. I think it was just a major upset because he was one of the scrub wrest like that got beat on all the time and then they later joined up in uh dx right or no yeah or i think no they had split up and that

was when razor ramon went to uh it was wcw and that. That's what it was. Sorry, I got confused. Sully me. Yeah. Anyway, yeah, so, I mean, a lot of those things are things that ended up kind of shaping, you know, who I am and how I turned out to be. And, you know, the next thing that we're going to kind of run through here is, like, you know, I'm talking about how you got to be irrational in order to kind of like hold on to these dreams. And you're going to have to tell people that love you, tell people that care about you, that, you know, you're following this dream and you're not coming off this path no matter what. And they're going to tell you things that sound enticing and that sound smart. Hey man, you know, you should probably, you know, go work at like Applebee's or something and you should go do this

or go to something to fall back on. And, and yeah people always say that now this this doesn't mean this is not this doesn't give you carte blanche to be a loser so this this is really important because a lot of times that's what people will do andrew was just talking about how he went all in on photography but don't think that he didn't have another job while he was doing it. Right. You still had another job. You weren't a loser. You still were, you still were like practicing for the future.

You still were sacrificing for the unknown. You still had a job. You still had obligations. You still had family. You still had friends. You still had coworkers. You still had a boss. You still had, you still had friends you still had co-workers you still had a boss you still had you know other employees you still had people that relied on you yeah i was gonna say i still had bills that i couldn't just be like nope i'm going all in fuck everything and so sometimes

people they'll they'll they're like yeah man like it's gonna come together and look it's not it's you know what it's not gonna come together and you're, it's not, it's, you know what? It's not going to come together. And you're, you're living a dream. That's going to turn into a nightmare really fast because you're not taking care of the shit that you need to take care of. Right. And we'll get, we'll get to some of that in a minute, but like you still have to work. You still have to have really strong work ethic. I've said before on the podcast, when I met my wife, I didn't have a job. I didn't have a car. I had a lot of debt. You know, I had a lot of this, a lot of that, but I wasn't a loser. I still worked really hard. Anything that I ever did,

I worked really hard at. I just, I didn't have a lot of direction. I couldn't figure things out. And just because you can't figure things out, that doesn't mean you're a loser. Being a loser is being a loser. And it's very obvious when you're a loser. When you're a loser, you can't figure out how to win at all. And winning at all is like just getting a job and being able to maintain one. winning at all is like just getting a job and being able to maintain one. Um, being, being a winner would be, uh, being able to follow through on stuff. Like you, you'll know, like you'll know. And if you don't have the characteristics to follow through on much of anything,

then it's going to be really hard to hold onto these dreams because you're going to keep getting pulled in different directions for a really long time. And you're going to have to have some sort of stability in order to make it all work and to make it all come together. So, um, everyone's sharing this stuff about, you know, being an entrepreneur and, um, you know, like being an entrepreneur is very, is dangerous territory. It's, it's important for people to understand that. I mean, we just, we just lost a good one with, uh, uh, my friend Jason, um, you know, taking his own life. I mean, it, it, it's dangerous territory and entrepreneurs. Um, if you look at the statistics, they, they, there's a high rate of suicide. It is, uh, it is

a dangerous position to be in. It's, it's hard's hard. There's a lot of stress that's involved. And yeah, it's sexy and appealing because you quote unquote work for yourself. But as many of you know that are trying to do it, you don't really work for yourself. You still have so many obligations that it gets to be insane. And it can be a lot of fun though, on the other hand, right? But you still have to do the things that you don't want to do when you normally don't want to do them, which gets to be really hard. How do we figure out, you know, again, just back to that kind of loser thing before we move on. You're going to have to practice and test your will and test your work ethic consistently and constantly. And that can be tested through many different ways. It can

be tested through diet. It can be tested through lifting. It can be tested through some form of physical activity, exercise. It could be just about anything. I mean, putting together events or following through on certain things that you say that you're going to do. It could be that you say that you're going to help your grandmother build something or help somebody, you know, clean out their garage. Or like it just could be anything. But if you're not working on saying, yep, you i said that i'm gonna do that and i'm gonna check that off um and even just things that you say to yourself on a daily basis you know i'm gonna clean out that closet tomorrow and you never clean it out i mean like those things are going to be things that will manifest and will build up and when you are um you're at a point in your life

where you don't have other responsibilities that are making these other things pile up, then you should just get that shit done so that you can at least prove to yourself that you're strong enough to at least get some of that stuff done so that as you get closer and closer to your hopes and your dreams, you'll start to realize, yep, I'm getting closer and I'm going to be ready when it's time to make that jump i'm going to be ready because i've been prepping for this for a long time i've been prepared for this for a long time i've been practicing for a long time i'm ready to rock getting that conditioning in yeah getting that conditioning you know they call it callusing your brain right you're getting a you're getting a callus on your mind to to toughen yourself up

for whatever's coming next. Just like you would callus your hands. First time you go on the monkey bar as a kid, that shit hurts. Once you go on them a couple times, there's what about a baseball bat? How bad does it hurt to swing a baseball bat a bunch of times? Yeah, if you don't hit the sweet spot. Yeah, it kills your hands. Well, then you get used to it.

Then you get a better swing. And then maybe you get some batting gloves and things like that. Right. And it can, it can, uh, you can get used to it, but you build up those calluses in your hands and it makes a, it makes a big difference. Now here's, you know, this is really hard to do. How do you find out what you want to do? Um, that can be really difficult, but this is where you'll have to be open-minded. You'll have to try some different things. If you don't happen to just stumble upon it,

then it might be difficult. I think for me, um, I think for me, I think for me, it was always there. So it just, it was there without me ever even looking for it.

I sometimes have told people that lifting has chose me. I didn't really choose it. It it just appeared you know my brothers were into it and it came my way and um i was like this is awesome i'm gonna do this the rest of my life and i you know watch pro wrestling and watch how big and strong some of those guys were and i was attracted very much so to heavy lifting and power lifting i saw people locally at my you know local gym lifting some heavy weight i'm like this is awesome uh i was watching wwe and i saw ted rcd bench press 700 pounds that stuck in my head forever and i was like i want to figure out a way to do that someday like that i don't know what that is

or how that guy did that but that was amazing and it was something that um was just always there but i didn't know what it was going to turn into i didn't. And it was something that, um, was just always there, but I didn't know what it was going to turn into. I didn't know how it was going to turn into what it's turned into, but you know, luckily for me, I knew at a very young age, how does somebody else figure that out? I think you're going to have to have life experiences to help you figure those things out. Yeah. Yeah. I was telling somebody not too long ago because they were having a hard time figuring out, well, shit, I was telling somebody not too long ago, because they were having a hard time figuring out, well, shit, I don't really know what I'm passionate about. I was like, well, what can you not live without? Like, you know, what, if I took something away

from you, what would that one thing be? And they weren't sure. So I'm like, okay, then, then we have to figure out what that is. You know, and if, if I was kind of being a jerk about it, but I'm like, well, if there's nothing that you're missing, then why are you looking? And when I said that, like, eyes opened up and I was like, fuck. Like, okay. Like, yeah, I got to figure this out sooner than later. No, that makes a lot of sense. Yeah.

That makes a lot of sense. Yeah. I think a lot of times people will sit there and they'll say, I don't know what I'm passionate about. I don't know what I like. But then if you really kind of break them down and you start to talk to them more, you kind of find out they're into all kinds of things. But then they're going to say to themselves, oh, well, I don't really know. I couldn't really do anything with that. You know, you find out that they are really into, let's just say like car stereos. You know, they're into like audio, they're into like sound, they're into this or into that.

Well, I don't know, maybe they can help engineer podcasts. Or you can find things that are, you know, directly related exactly 100% to what you like to do. Or you can find things that are indirectly related to what you're doing they could either be could either be 100 what you want to do or it could be uh an offshoot of it because you realize like oh through this i can learn that so like let's say that you are into um car stereos well maybe you get a job with a band and you learn how to do, you just go up to somebody that's in a band and you say, Hey, I want to work with you guys for free for a little while, because this is something that I want to get into more. You learn more about sound and bass and treble and all these different things, and you figure

out how to mix it together. And then who knows maybe you install car stereos and start your own company when you're older or whatever i don't know exactly what it looks like for everybody but um i do know the story with dana white he said that he went to somebody locally who happened to be just known as the town badass. And he said, I want to work with you and I want to learn from you. And that's how everything got started. Um,

Dana White happened to be fortunate enough to go to school with one of the Fertitta brothers. And so he kind of always knew him and had him in his back pocket, but he simultaneously started moving forward with a lot of this a lot of this boxing stuff he also wasn't a loser he got a job he was working as a bellman and he decided he wanted to quit that job and he wanted to follow through with his uh his hopes and dreams and he ended up he ended up doing so but in the meantime he had had a job. He also, uh, was actively trying to chase down that dream. And he chased down that dream by offering something free to somebody. Um, I, I have, uh,

trained people for free and work for people for free. The gym is free. Um, I've given a lot of free things away. Even when I was starting the gym in the first place, which the gym is where everything started in the first place. The gym is where everything grew from. Um, when I started the gym, you know, one of the, one of the guys that wanted to, uh, invest some money in kind of just the gym starting up in the first place was just a gym member who I said, okay, well, if you're able to, if you're able to, you know, he wanted to give me 5,000 bucks. That's what he said he could part with very easily. I said, okay, if you could part with 5,000 bucks and you're a member for life. And anytime we get shirts or hats or whatever, I'll give them just there for you for free.

Anybody that you're friends with, they can come into the gym. We also had the understanding of like, hey, you don't own the gym. Like you're not, you're not a gym owner this is just cash that's going to be exchanged and it's just paying for that and he was like that's fine totally agree and uh that's what happened and so we were able to move forward but had i not ever told him about what i was trying to do he would never know he would not give me the money because he wouldn't know that I needed it in the first place. Um, and also we worked out an agreement, you know, I said, Hey, I'm going to do this for you. He wanted to bench 900 pounds. I said, I can get you there. And we did. Um, and everything just kind of worked out the way

that it did. But like, I mean, for me, luckily, again, I already knew what I wanted to do. But part of part of knowing what you want to do is when you kind of start to find out some of the things that you want to do, you got to share that with people. You got to tell people what your hopes and dreams are and finding. You know, I say that I knew that I wanted to do, but I really didn't because I didn't, I never knew that I wanted to be an inventor. And ultimately being an inventor is what I am. And that's, and that is what led to everything else. Um, going back to someone like Elon Musk or going back to somebody like Steve Jobs, we'll just use Steve Jobs. For example. Steve Jobs has done more business than just about anybody that ever lived. What was Steve Jobs? Steve Jobs, was he a businessman?

Or was he like a creator? Steve Jobs was more of a creator than anything else, but was he a good businessman? Of course, of course he was a good businessman, but like he didn't ever set out to do that. He probably never really used that terminology. He probably never used those exact words. Um, the greatest businessmen of all time, a lot of times are going to have an advantage if they are people that are creative and why is that it's because they are not going to be rational towards the amount of money that they make they're not going to be rational about how they make their money a business guy is going to say one plus one equals. And when we make this money by this time,

that means that we're going to make this money by this time. And if we don't have money from A, B, and C, then we can't move on to D. That's Andrew's favorite. This is the capital letter D. He loves that D. He's stuck on that D. You did ask me to

wash your balls this morning I did and you didn't help I know I let you down but there was a whole crew there and it would have got weird because they were like where did Andrew go and then you would have been like he's washing my balls yeah it would have gotten weird

people tend to judge people tend to judge those People tend to judge. Those dream killers. Yeah. They're all over. They're everywhere. But somebody that is creative is going to have like irrational thought, an irrational thought process. I've said before that one of my favorite quotes is from John Madden.

And he used to say it before every football game and all the players get all fired up and they don't even know why they get fired up because a lot of them didn't even know what it meant but he said don't worry about the horse being blind just load the wagon and that is kind of the mindset of like hey don't worry about where we're going just do your job you know we're going to figure out a way to get there together we'll worry about it uh after your work done, which is the wagon being loaded. And now the horse is blind. Now, how the hell are we going to get to where we need to get to?

You, uh, you kind of figure that crap out later on. And when it comes to making money, you make money with great ideas, not necessarily with a great business plan, A great business plan from somebody who has executed multiple businesses well will probably always be profitable, probably always make money, but it might make $200,000. This other business might make $200,000 and the guy might accumulate all kinds of crazy amounts of money, but somebody could come along with one awesome crazy idea that maybe on paper doesn't even make any sense um such as the guy who made the sponge that was on qvc and that was on um should i'm forgetting the name of the show? Shark tank. Shark tank.

I can't believe I forgot the name. I love that show was on shark tank. The guy that made the sponge has a smiley face on it, you know? And the guy, like, I don't remember the type of business the guy did, but the guy came,

you know, went to the tune of like $50 million or something like that. Or if you ever seen the, um, the movie, uh, that they made with the woman that, uh, did that like mop. Have you ever seen that movie that they made with the woman that did that mop. Have you ever seen that movie?

No. Anyway, it's an amazing movie. I should know the name of it. Damn it, I don't know the name of it. It was an awesome movie. It's a girl from Hunger Games. What's that girl's name? The main girl in hunger

games why am i so bad it's it's been a long day we've had you say all kinds of stuff today that's true that would be my excuse jennifer jennifer lawrence jennifer lawrence jennifer lawrence is in it and it's an awesome movie there we go look at that sponge is it the scrub daddy scrub daddy okay yeah i mean it looks you know, it's dumb, right? It's dumb. Yeah. Well, you know, and, and, but there's business people who look at that and be like, that's, I don't, you know, get out of here with that. It was retarded.

No, yeah. No one's gonna like that. But the, not only is the sponge like functional, not only does it work really good, I guess because of the holes and because of the smiley face, it doesn't collect as much junk, which is a major problem for sponges. They can be really gross. They can hold on to a lot of bacteria because they're sponges, right? And this particular one, it tends to work really good and people really like it. And it's got a smiley face on it, which is wonderful for when you're doing dishes, right? That's crazy.

Figure out that movie that Jennifer Lawrence is in with the mop. All right. That's a great movie. But anyway, you know, you're going to have to have some irrational thought if you want to be successful in any of these things. And, you know, finding out what you want to do. Joy, there we go. That's the name of the movie. That movie is awesome. And anybody who wants to be an entrepreneur and anybody who wants to kick it.

God damn, Jennifer Lawrence is hot. Yep. And then they released those pictures and it was all over. That was the first time I really even paid attention to the cloud. Not your cloud. Her cloud. No, no, no.

I still can't figure out how to even access my cloud. But everyone learned how to figure out hers. Everybody listen to this message, okay? We need help over here. We don't understand the cloud. If there's somebody, anybody listening that understands the cloud, anybody listening to this message, hello, hello, hello, hello. Anybody there.

Anybody. Bueller. Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. That's me using Morse code saying we need help with the cloud. And then you said that your iPhone was trying to back itself up or something. It's going to back something up. I don't know. It keeps giving me this message.

It's stuck on my phone now. Okay, here's what it says. It says iPhone not backed up. This iPhone has not been backed up in two weeks. Is that an emergency? backed up in two weeks is that an emergency um backups happen when this iphone is connected to power locked and on wi-fi well if it does that while it's on wi-fi and it's locked and it's yeah it's it's always i don't you know my phone has a mind of its own because these phones are not made to like handle the amount of abuse that I give this thing.

You are pretty bad with your phone. I have really bad luck. But anyway, we need help over here. My phone's been saying that since the first day I got it. And it's like, oh, you don't have enough space. I have over 200 gigs available. I didn't do anything. I have not done anything. I have not done anything.

It's not my fault. I'm telling you. I'm for reals the victim this time. No, I'm serious. No, really. This is serious. We need help. We need a lot of help.

We've talked before on the podcast about having, you know, kind of having that victim mentality and how, you know, you complain about something and you're like, no, no, but I, but. Do food stamps fix iPhones? Yeah. These goddamn food stamps won't buy diapers. These food stamps won't fix my iCloud, but just kind of how ridiculous it can be sometimes to, Oh, we're going to watch a trailer. I don't know. I just throw it how ridiculous it can be sometimes to oh we're gonna watch a trailer i don't know just throw it up you can oh um you know we were just talking about how ridiculous it can

be you know when you're complaining and how you're so adamant and you want other people to feel your pain and you complain and complain and complain and you're like no but this is a real complaint man like this really happened you don't understand and no matter what it always sounds dumb it always kind of sounds stupid i mean every once in a while something will happen and all you can really say say to somebody um you know somebody can say hey man you know i was driving down the street the other day and the worst thing happened to me i went and i i went to change the music on my on my uh radio and i and i i ran over a cat or something right well that's like kind of a legitimate thing like oh shit man like i'm sorry like that sucks you freaking killed someone's pet or whatever may have happened right like that's kind of legitimate

but like aside from like you know that's like an accident right and those things happen but a lot of times these complaints that we have are just uh are just garbage and they sound stupid yeah um in that same uh dana white uh interview he was talking about how he gets excited for monday he can't wait for the week to start and uh you know like if you're complaining about Monday like you need to quit yeah today on my my commute here to the gym it was like normal like rush like traffic hour times and I was just like fuck I don't miss this at all but what ended up happening is this guy he got

into the the carpool lane he seen that there was a cop there and he slowed down and he's like fuck it i'm going for it and he guns it and the cop gets out and he like he did a double take and he's like nope and he pulled him over and i'm just like dude like how bad does your job suck to where you're willing to risk getting a ticket to get there on time? Right. I understand if it was a serious deal and you had a meeting or whatever. But I don't know. I was just like, shit, dude.

I'm so grateful that I don't deal with that anymore. Yeah, this job is so much fun. And it really shows. And I'm not just making this shit up because i i run the joint or whatever it really is a lot of fun and and really um and in a lot of ways i don't really run anything i mean i ultimately what ends up happening is i end up you know texting people ideas or suggestions, say, Hey, like, it'd be cool if we did this, you know, um, I just, it runs itself, you know, it runs itself because the individuals get to run kind of their own territory. You know, Jessica and Joey handle social media. Um,

Smokey is the general manager, so he has to push things along and he's kind of the one that ends up uh kind of handling multiple uh tasks and kind of making sure and overseeing that a lot of things get done like certain guests get get here to the show um they get hotels they get you know people he's kind of overseeing and making sure people are are um you know getting lunch breaks and getting along and just there's a million things that the guy is responsible for and uh he's done a great job with a lot of that and he's a big part of why everyone here is so happy um but if you look at the media team too like they're not being like like chris griffin who runs our youtube chris griffin's not breathing

down anybody's neck. You know, I never see him in there, you know, hovering over somebody like, it's got to be done. And, uh, a lot of stuff doesn't even work that way. Um, you know, um, we, we do want things to be done. We want people to be working, but the things will get done when they get done. They take certain amounts of time. But the things will get done when they get done. They take certain amounts of time.

When we first started, a lot of these things, they took a long time for me to learn certain things. It's hard to be patient sometimes when you have something and you're like, oh man, we have this thing and I want to get it out to everybody. But the only people that know that we have it are us anyway. So it doesn't really matter, right? Does it matter that it gets released on Monday or does it matter that it gets released on Tuesday? No, not really.

The most important thing is that it gets executed well. The most important thing is that there's execution behind it and that there's a story behind it. There's a story behind it. You know, one thing that I'm learning that is a hard thing to understand is, and this is a quote I want to stick up on the wall and I have the quote written somewhere that's better than what I'm going to say, but it's more accurate. With this company and all the different things that we're trying to do, and this is just a good like life message in general, We're not trying to sell to everyone. We're only trying to sell to the people that are on board with our message. If you don't get our message, that's totally fine. I don't need you to get our

message. Nobody here needs you to understand our message. If you don't want to be part of this free gym, that's okay. You can go train. You can go pay for a gym and you can go somewhere else. If you do want to be part of this free gym, this is a cool environment to get better. It's a cool environment to get stronger. If you want a pair of strong sleeves, if you want a strong belt, if you want to buy some of the apparel, if you want to support what we do because you're into it, then that's fantastic. And if you are into it and if you are

behind it and you are someone that cares about it, then what does that do for this company? That brings in somebody else that's passionate about it. And that's what we want. We want people that are excited about these products. We want people that are excited about the things that we're doing here. And we don't, we don't, I don't need to have everybody work here either. Right. Like we, we can, we can hire more people. Um, we could keep hiring, you know, friends and family and keep bringing people on board, but we really only want to hire people that are behind the message. People that understand the message. Uh, Terrell is the kind of the newest person here, right? So far, it's very clear.

He's behind the message. He had a pair of knee sleeves before I ever met him. You know, he had a pair of strong sleeves before I ever met the guy. And a lot of the guys here have had products. And I think, you know, you might've had some stuff, or at least we're aware a lot of other people, um, have supported the message and that's what we want from the customer too we don't get acquiring new customers is awesome and that's not even really what i'm talking about um but the customer whether they're new or they're old it's important that they understand the message that we have if they don't then it doesn't they're they're not really as valuable to us as someone that

does understand the message. Cause someone that understands what we're trying to do and someone that listens to this podcast and somebody that embraces a lot of the things that we do, they don't have to agree with everything that I say, but somebody that embraces what we're doing and they see what's going on and they say, mark bell creates products for power lifters he was a power lifter for a really long time he tore his peck he had an invention he capitalized on capitalism he capitalized living here in the united states and uh he's done a good job with it he makes fun and cool products i like the message that they have. He has a lot of fun. His Instagram is funny and wacky and silly and sometimes a little off color.

And it appears that he and a lot of the people that work out at Super Training Gym have a lot of fun. And they laugh a lot. They smile a lot. And they lift a lot. That's what we want. We want people that understand that message that see that message and want them to go click i'm gonna click on that purchase boom i'm gonna buy that but anyone who's like me you know i'm gonna check out the prices of spd i'm gonna check out the price of iron rebel

then those people that want to do all that stuff then that's then they're just not for us and that's totally fine because we can still be, uh, twice as successful as we are right now by keep up, keep keeping, uh, with, uh, keeping with our kind of motto, which is we're trying to make the world a better place to lift. And we still have a lot of work to do, uh, when it comes to that, there's still a lot of people to reach. So that's been a really tough thing to, to understand because it takes a lot of patience to do that. It takes a lot of patience to just kind of like literally watch people at a trade show, like look at your product and walk by. And you're like, Hmm, that guy was big. He had tattoos.

He had a goatee. He was bald. Totally looked like my customer. And he just walked on by like hmm maybe he's just a fat guy and watch the next fat guy walk by and kind of same thing and then you just learn over a period of time like oh well you know okay that's fine that maybe that guy believes in something else yeah maybe that guy believes in uh you know, if there is a message from those other companies, maybe they,

maybe they, maybe they believe in whatever bullshit those other companies are pumping out. In San Jose, I talked to this dude for, I don't know,

he was probably at the booth for like 20 minutes. I was talking to him about the slingshot. Man, the guy was hitting on you. Well, shit,

that might have been it. But, I was talking to him about the slingshot, you know, got him doing pushups and da, da, da. And then finally, he was like, oh might've been it. But I was telling him about the slingshot, you know, got him doing pushups and dah, dah, dah.

And then finally he was like, oh, this is cool. Do you have a bench block? I was like, uh, no, we don't have any of those here,

man. And he's like, do you know who does? I'm like, I could not tell you at all. And he's like, all right, cool.

Thanks. And I'm like, yeah, that's exactly what I'm talking about. Somebody, you know, comes over and they start shooting the shit with you. And they're like, is Ronnie Coleman here? You're like, dude, I don't have any, I don't have any idea.

I mean, first of all, if Ronnie Coleman was here, I wouldn't be standing right here either. I'd be standing in line to get his autograph. Yeah. But it's, uh, yeah, it is really funny like that. And, um, I don't know, you just, you learn over a period of time that like, if I have to, if I have to like sell you something, um, and it's to try to like sell you on the product and it's not going to work. But if I sell you on a concept or an idea, that's way different thing. So somebody comes to the booth and they have no idea of our products or anything

and they come by and they say hey you know uh what what do you guys have going on you say well that's kind of a long story we have we have quite a few products it all started with this one product called the slingshot slingshot supportive upper body device for bench press push-ups and dips but really what we're doing here we're just trying to make the world a better place to lift because we realize that lifting day in and day out is kind of a pain in the balls and it hurts and we make a lot of products that support you while you lift and we have a gym in west sacramento that's actually free so if you ever want to come check it out we'd love to have you there and they go what you had a free gym what the hell what is that okay right hey what products you say you have because you know what you had a free gym what the hell what is that okay right hey what

products you say you have because you know what my elbow has been killing me you got anything for your elbow yeah of course we do actually you know if you wrap your wrist it can actually help your elbow too it can help your shoulder we have wrist wraps we got elbow sleeves now you got the guy he's like bought in right and whether you actually make a sale or not is irrelevant, but he's bought into kind of everything else that you're doing. And just kind of, uh, relating this all back to what the hell it was we were talking about in the first place of finding out what it is you want to do. A lot of times this has to do with direction. And as I talked about earlier, I didn't really have a direction for a long time. And so when I didn't have my license and when I, uh, was in debt and there was all these different things going on

and things were not looking great for me, um, I didn't have a direction, but I was still strong. And I don't mean strong, like lifting wise. Um, when it came to going to football practice at Santa Monica city college, where I played with Chad Johnson and Steve Smith, um, I still went to practice every day. I showed up, I worked as hard as I could when my coach said, Hey, you know what? Um, we were losing a lot of our players because the grades are coming out tomorrow. Can you play defensive tackle instead of being a outside linebacker? And I weighed at the, you know know at that point in the season i went from like 225 to like 205 because we were just running so much i was dying my coach is like hey

can you play nose guard and i said because coach i'll do he's like are you still strong in a weight room and stuff i said yeah i'm still throwing around the same weight he goes all right can you play nose guard i said absolutely played nose guard got the crap kicked out of me every single game got killed got double teamed triple teamed got hit by the center the two guards the fullback like whoever they had they just absolutely killed me i mean i remember you know a bunch of plays i'd get past the center i'd get past the guard to be so excited and wham like a freight train a fullback would come and just knock the crap out of me when I thought I was going to be able to get to the quarterback. But I, I was a hard worker. I was always trying. I was always trying to be better. I was still

training at gold's gym. I was still, um, you know, Will Harris, uh, was training me at freaking not while I was playing football at the same time, but he was training me at like four o'clock in the morning. I was still working really hard and I was still working towards my goals and I was still working towards a lot of my hopes and dreams. I just didn't have a direction, but I was never like overwhelmed. You know, I think being overwhelmed is a really awful thing to be. And I was never, I never like, I never wished for things to be easier. I always knew that my skill level would match up to, uh, whatever the day had for me. And I heard a really cool quote the other day and it said, um, don't wish for the, don't wish for the wind to be less severe, wish for a bigger sale. And I think that that's what you should be envisioning. If

you have a larger sail, that represents your skill set. And that sail with the wind and you having a direction and having a map can take you the right way. And it could lead you down the right path. And finding out what you want to do, you're going to have to develop a skill set. You're going to still have to have willpower. You're going to still have to have work ethic. Without those things, you're dead. You're done. You're toast. You're dead in the water. And you're going to have to, if you're depressed, if you have, you know, if you're sitting on a couch all the time, you're doing those things, you're going to have to figure out a way to get yourself up off that couch and get moving. And not, it's not because of, it's not because you want to be ripped.

You're not going to go for a walk because you want to be ripped. This is, you're going for a walk because you want to be successful. Somebody say, Hey, what are you, why are you going for these walks all the time? And you can tell them, Hey, it's because I want to be rich someday. And they'll say, what the hell are you talking about? That doesn't make any sense. Back to being irrational, right? You have irrational thoughts. You don't think like other people. I saw an interview the other day with Muhammad Ali where he told the guy who was interviewing him, I mean, it was like kind of mean in some way. He goes, I don't think like you do. He's like, I'm different than you. I'm on another level than you are. And he said, with the level that I'm on, he's like, he's like,

there's, I'm looking down at everybody and the level that I'm on, which is way up here. And I'm not saying that I'm on this level. I'm just referring to what Muhammad Ali said. Muhammad Ali was saying, I'm on this level up here. Everybody else is way down here. And they keep looking up at me and they say, Ali, don't do it. Don't take this fight. You're going to get hurt. He goes, I'm not going to get hurt. You know why I'm not going to get hurt? Because I don't think the way that you think. He's like, the next guy that I fight, I'm going to whoop his ass because I'm Muhammad Ali. I'm the greatest fighter of all time. And that's, you got to start to develop. You can't develop that mindset from sitting on your ass.

That mindset can only be developed through victory. And you're going to have to figure out how can I develop some wins? If you are not a professional boxer, how are you going to develop some victories? How are you going to develop some wins? Maybe one of your victories is if there's a speed bag at the gym, you say, you know what? I always see that damn speed bag. I want to learn how to hit that thing. Learn how to hit the speed bag.

Boom. Exit off your map. Victory number one. Right. Or, um, you know what? I heard the other day that, uh, it's healthy to go on a couple walks every week. I'm going to walk two hours every week. I don't know.

You pick a number. What's reasonable? What's a number that's reasonable? I'm going to walk one hour every week. That'd be 20 minutes, six days a week, right? I get that right? 20 minutes, six days a week. Is that a reasonable amount of time? Yeah. That doesn't sound hard at all. And then you go out and

you do it and there's, and there's a victory. Um, I, I heard that it's important that I sleep more. Well, shit, I can get on board with that. I get to sleep more or, um, I don't really know if I can sleep more. I don't know if I can, you know, sleep in an eight hour stretch, but maybe I can get a nap in twice a week. Boom. There's another victory. Yeah. Taking a nap can be a victory. Um, somebody said that reading is really important. I, I, I need to read. I need to, you know, I need to start educating myself. Education's going to be a key to me making some big changes. There's another victory.

It seems like you've been reading this sleep book almost every day. Well, I got the audio book, so. Yeah, but when have you been listening to it? As soon as I jump in the car. You know, because I don't want to say that's, like, dead time or anything, but, like. It's 20 minutes. Yeah. 10 minutes, 15 minutes.

What I would like to do is, like,'s 20 minutes yeah 10 minutes yeah what i would like to do is like hop on a stair mill or stair master and like finish the book yeah like that's what i would like to do yeah and but other than that like i haven't gone on any like 10 minute walks where like i have like the headphones on or anything because i'm either with somebody or i i don't know i also i love listening to nothing like silence. Silence is really loud early in the morning, and I like that sound. So to block things out, do you wear headphones and just walk with nothing on? No, no. I like being around when no one's out.

Oh, okay. I've always been into it. When we go camping or something, i like being up early and hearing absolutely nothing it's like deafening it's so loud yeah and a lot of people don't experience that but that's what i like to do in the mornings yeah i love that sound like it's it's so weird but it's like the most calming thing like i i can imagine oh it makes sense to me i love being awake before the sun is i love being out i like to kind of beat the sun and for some reason i i think that's amazing i remember um uh when we first

moved in into the house that we're in now i remember being outside uh at night and um i was just like looking up at the stars and i was like man i'm so thankful that like this house is beautiful like everything's really cool and i just sat down and i just looked up i saw the stars and I was like, man, I'm so thankful that like this house is beautiful. Like everything's really cool. And I just sat down and I just looked up, I saw some stars and I was like, it is totally and completely silent out here. There's no noise. I'm like, I'm just going to sit here and just, this is awesome. I'm like, I'm like, hold on a second yep there's no noise none there's nothing and then every once in a while because like not there's not a freeway but there's a boat there's a street it's not too far from me that you'll hear a car but it's like kind of light and that's about it you don't hear anything every once in a while dog next door, he might bark a little bit, but that's like in the morning.

And it's pretty rare. Yeah. There's no noise. I'm like, this is awesome. So I agree with you. I like the way it is. Yeah. In my neighborhood, no one's up early.

They're usually up late. But like, I guess, I don't know, maybe because there's no movement, like you can hear nothing. Because if you walk towards the end of the day or whatever and like there's just stuff going on even when there's like a break in like traffic or people it's not the same quiet it's a different i don't know maybe has something to do with like the air in the morning but see like even that you know like i think everyone thinks that they have their victory has to be that they went and they did an hour and a half workout. Now, if your goal is to be in better shape, then maybe that is the goal that you have to have.

If you want to be really lean or something or you got some wild hair up your ass about fitness, then maybe you do need 90 minutes a day of hard training the way that you and I are doing, right? need 90 minutes a day of hard training the way that you and I are doing, right? But when you're just talking about success and you're just talking about feeling good and being happy, maybe your victory for the day is to hear nothing. I'm going to go out and I'm going to find whatever time that is because we can't complain about things that we already know aren't going to happen. So we can't, you can't say, man, I can't wait to get home and just listen to nothing at six o'clock at night because you know it's going to be too noisy. Right. So you're going to go outside and just bitch and moan about nothing.

Or you're going to try to do it at eight o'clock at night when you know it doesn't work that way. at eight o'clock at night when you know it doesn't work that way you need to get up at whatever appropriate time it is that that it's quiet or you need to stay up to whatever time is appropriate it's quiet and you do that for however many minutes you like that to be whether it's you walking or just sitting or whatever and that needs to happen right Right? Like that, but that's a victory. That in itself is a victory. You know what? I loved the other day. I loved when I spent 10 minutes the other day watching my daughter draw.

I loved when I spent, I loved when I, I loved when I read to my son the other day. I loved, as soon as you say that, take, take a second and think about, think about what you just said and say, I'm going to make sure that I'm going to do that more. So this goes into find things that are easy to do and do them a lot and repeat them.

You want it to be things that are helpful. I mean, you know, you want it to be things that are, that are going to lead to success with you. It might be, um, you know what I wrote, you know what me and my girlfriend went out last night and we, we went on a walk and, uh, you know, we, we drove to downtown sack. We went on a walk and I loved it. Well, maybe you like, maybe you can't do that every night, but maybe you're like, Hey, you know what? Like once a month or even every other month, let's go do that. Whatever the hell it is, it could be anything.

I'm just using that as an example, but it could be anything. If it makes you happier, it's going to help you. And again, how does this relate to talking about Dana White and talking about him selling his company for $360 million? This all has to do with happiness because Dana White's level of success, I'm sure has, A, made him happy, but I'm sure has also cost him a lot of anguish over the years and probably has cost him a lot, right. In a lot of different ways. Um, and he's probably had to learn over the years, but this, what I'm trying to, the message I'm trying to get to everybody today is not about, you know, being a million or billionaire necessarily. This is about being happy, finding what you want to do and being able to do it. whether it actually makes you rich is one thing. Um, and being, and being rich and being wealthier, like different things. I,

I feel that I've always been rich. I feel that I've always had an abundance of, of, of things that I like and things that I love and people that I love. I've always had that. I've always had enough hugs. I've always had enough kisses. I've kisses i've always had uh i've never i mean i guess everybody in their life feels neglected at some point right just because you're like a little kid and you feel like you're left out of something you cry right so i can't say that i never felt neglected but legitimately legitimate gripe about being neglected no uh definitely i don't i don't have a legitimate gripe uh with any of that i've had an abundance i have been um i've been healthy the people around me have been relatively healthy i have had uh i've felt rich my whole life and it's not about the money in the bank it's about

just just feeling i've always felt good and so for that i'm very fortunate having awesome parents i'm very fortunate having two brothers that i've always been very close with i'm very fortunate yes my one brother died and like we're gonna everyone's gonna deal with tragedy like that's just you know tragedies are part of life death is part of life people are going to die it's you know you know, sucks, right? But it happens. Um, and even with that, it's like, that's something that makes me sad. It upsets me. Um, it upsets my family obviously. Um, but we're all strong enough to be able to sit here and talk about it today. We're all strong enough to say, you don't want to be awesome. If he was here today, he would love it. He would think this is so cool. He'd want to come in here and talk about it today. We're all strong enough to say, you know what? Be awesome. If he was here today, he would love it.

He would think this is so cool. He'd want to come in here and train. He'd probably come in here and squat in his underwear. Cause I don't know. He just thought that that was funny. And, uh, he'd be wearing some wacky, weird underwear. Um, as he did it, my friends, my friend, Steve, that came in here that one day. Yeah.

Uh, mad dog squatted in his garage squatted 500 for like 10 reps wearing a purple purple underwear we don't know why he had purple underwear purple tighty whities nice it was horrifying but uh that's that's what happened but um you know i've i've always felt i've always felt rich. And then turning that later on into what it's turned into, the financial side of things, is not even so much what I'm getting at today. What I'm getting at today is finding things that you love to do and being able to execute them. If you can execute them really well, then you can become wealthy.

But being rich and being wealthy are not necessarily the same thing. People that are successful aren't always good people. People that do good and great things that we think are good and we think are great are not always good and great people. People have a hard time separating out these things. People get so pissed when i talk about the president but every you know every president has has strong points and every president has weak points um every mayor every you know every every person period has strengths and weaknesses and i think like people have a hard time separating out. If you talk about Barry Bonds, there'll be a lot of people say he was a cheater, right? There's a lot of other people would say he's the greatest baseball player of all time.

But people have a hard time separating things out. OJ Simpson. OJ Simpson was a great football player. OJ Simpson was a one of a kind football player. He was the first player and the only player for a very long time to run for 2000 yards in a season. He's the only player in the history of football to do it in a 14 game season. OJ Simpson was a great football player.

Is OJ Simpson crazy? Yes. He's crazy, right? Um, he probably did murder his wife. He probably did murder Ron Goldman or right. He probably did these things.

So he was a great football player, but bad person. Right? Donald Trump. Is it possible that Donald Trump is racist and sexist? Yeah, probably. Does it mean he's not a good president? Not necessarily. It doesn't necessarily mean that he's not a good president.

Same with Bill Clinton. Did Bill Clinton make bad decisions in his marriage? Yeah, he did. He made bad decisions with his marriage. It's very clear. Doesn't mean he wasn't a good president, right? Obama. It's like, you know, uh, president Obama, we don't, you know, you don't, you

don't know, you know, it seems like he's got a clean track record. Right. But just like anybody else in the world, he's done something wrong in his life. Right. Um, is he viewed as a good president? You know, time, time will tell. It kind of takes a while. There's some people right now shouting to the heavens like, ah, he sucked.

Because people get so emotional about it. But they have a hard time making sense of the situation. When you think about, you know, I always like to use Steve Jobs as an example. A lot of people think Steve Jobs was an asshole. Does that mean he wasn't good at executing when it came to business? No, he was probably one of the sharpest minds, maybe one of the best that we'll ever see. You hear a lot of times, you hear people like, man, that guy is so amazing on such another level. And then you hear about what an asshole he is, right?

So sometimes somebody can be a great basketball player, but they can be a jerk. What I'm trying to talk about today is a way to try to find what you love to do, find things that make you happy, find things that can excite you, find things that are positive, get around other positive people, live out some of the hopes and dreams that you want to do. But the key, it all starts with finding what you want to do. But if you don't have some of the mindset, the work ethic, the will, it's going to be hard to make any of these things go. And it's going to take you, all these things, they take a long time. As we were mentioning earlier, you're going to have to make sure that other people don't kill your dreams.

You're going to have to have some irrational thought against some of the things that people are going to tell you. In order to hold on to these hopes and dreams, you've got to almost take yourself back to the time you were a kid. When you were a kid, you might have said, you might have envisioned yourself. You might've been outside with a baseball and a baseball bat, and you might've threw it through the baseball up in the air and talk, thought about it being bottom of the ninth. And there's, uh, two strikes and three balls and it's the bottom of the ninth inning. Right.

And, and you're the last batter and boom, you hit the game winning home run, right? When you hit the ball or you knock in the game winning run or whatever it was that you dreamed of or thought of and when you're playing basketball uh you're shooting the game winning shot it's the game winning half court shot right or game winning yeah or game winning three pointer three two there goes at the buzzer yeah and it's some like fade away thing right some crazy shot where you got fouled and of course if you miss you got fouled and then it's the free throw line right and there's like an and one and if you were in if you were a football player you know you're throwing up the football

and catching the game winning thing and it's it's not just a normal catch it's like some crazy like you can't just throw it up and just catch it. Uh, because if you do, then you have, then you always redo it and you're out there and you're throwing it up to yourself because it's your own wacky thoughts and dreams. And like, you don't even want anybody else around. I did a lot of this. I used to actually throw it up on my roof and then catch it when it came off the roof. Cause it always come off the roof. So funny.

And I had like dive for it, you know? And I'm sure baseball kids did this with their mitt and their baseball and stuff did it with baseball all the time yeah so i was always doing it with the football a lot of times i would just uh you know throw it up to myself and catch it but if i just caught it normal then i'd redo it you know i'd be like i gotta do it again and set it up it's the fourth quarter it's uh you know third and 37 and, you know, you,

you got to throw a bomb and, you know, you throw the ball up in the air. And if you, again, if I caught it normal, I had to redo it again. So now I got to back up and start it all over. And you got to do that.

Yeah. Like you, you know, won the super bowl or whatever, but it's gotta be this diving catch where you, you know, like the tree is out of bounds. And so you've got to just catch it right before the tree, but it's got to be inside the tree

so that you're in the end zone part and you barely made it in and you barely got both feet down and you barely caught it by the fingertips. It's hard to hold onto those hopes and dreams because when you're a kid, those hopes and dreams, as you get older, they become more and more distant. And then you're like, Oh, this is going to be cool, man. I'm going to get a job and I I'm going to make, um, you know, uh, I'm going to be, I, um, I'm the construction worker. And it's really cool because, you know, they, they, they pay you, um, they pay you, you know, 40 grand a year and they pay your insurance. And then they,

you know 40 grand a year and they pay your insurance and then they um they have this plan and they you know they do the dental and and then as you get moving along you're like well wait a second when i was a kid i didn't dream about making 50 grand when you were a kid you dreamed about like driving down the street in a race car or something crazy which you can't even do because the car's not even, but you didn't think about any of those rules when you were a kid, you know, they didn't even exist. The rules.

I mean, yeah, they don't exist. They don't exist. And so in some sense, you have to go back to that time of when you were a kid so that you don't have all these rules. Cause a lot of times these rules are going to be things that can potentially

could potentially hold you back. And you don't want to have to kind of live your life isolated inside that box. You want to be able to have a lot of fun with it. You want to be able to do a lot of the things that you want to do when you want to do them. Obviously, you're going to always have responsibilities, so you can't always do the things that you want to do. And if you, like as I've said so many times on this podcast, if you want to be great at something, it's going to take a great effort. But more importantly, you have to do the things that you don't want to do when you normally don't want to do them.

That's what separates people out from others. But you also have to do the things that are easy. What are things that are easy? I can give you a quick example. I was talking to our boy, Kev, the photographer. Kevvy Kev. Yeah, we've been having my buddy, Kevin. I don't even remember exactly how we met,

but I've been kind of like trying to. Tinder. Fuck. Who told you? Anyway. I saw him on there. That was you. That was the other guy. But anyway, he walked up to me and he was he looked a little beat down and he's like, man, like when you were doing freelance and stuff, did you ever have a point where you like

worked for like two weeks straight? And I was like, yeah, I did it for over two years straight. And he just looked at me like, like he was, he was beat down. Right. Because he just went and shot like some crazy trucks out in the country or somewhere. I don't know. He, he stays busy. But what I told him, I'm like, look,

you just shot a whole set of images again today. Like, unless you, you shot like, look, you just shot a whole set of images again today. Like, unless you shot, like, you know, for timing or something, like something that has to get turned in right away, like, go home and edit those or whatever. But from today, pick your, like, three favorite pictures that you took today and edit those and leave the rest for tomorrow. And he's like, oh, okay. Because I'm like, look, you're going to get burnt

out. I'm like, I know you love to take photos, but it's going to happen to you because it happened to me. It happens to all of us. What you can do is pick your favorite two, three images, work on those as long as you want, and then leave the rest for tomorrow.

This way, you're happy about what you did. You feel accomplished. It rejuvenates your excitement for what you shot and he was he was digging it so i'm like you know just do that tonight like don't worry don't worry about the rest of the pictures we don't need them right away and so he was pretty stoked and that's something that like uh i used to do as a wedding photographer because like i'd be just beat from shooting all weekend but the brides always want you know they want a sample or whatever and I'd be like fuck dude I don't want to edit all these pictures I just got done with you people but I would pick like you know probably about five to six images and work on those really good and then I would

use those for social media to try to book more more stuff But as far as doing things that are easy, it wasn't necessarily any easier than anything else, but I really wanted to work on those photos, and so that made working on them easier. Right. Yeah, a lot of times because it's what you want to do, that helps make it easier. Yeah, exactly.

Homework, when you're a kid, is kind of hard because it's something you can do, but it's something that you don't really want to do. Right. So, um, it'll be easier if you like it. We already know that, right. That's, uh, but what you're talking about, what you did is you kind of deconstructed it is you took something and you took a lot of work, seemed like a daunting task, but then you broke it down to its simplest form. And you took a lot of work, seemed like a daunting task, but then you broke it down to its simplest form. And no job is too great when you start to break it down into smaller parts, smaller pieces.

And that's an important thing to do. When I was listening to this other thing that a lot because when ali fought foreman um at the time foreman was like invincible he's indestructible he was too strong he was too powerful and ali deconstructed him from the beginning and everyone talked about how strong george foreman was and ali right away said he's slow he's clumsy he pointed out these other things right and he also said yeah you know what uh I had three wars with Joe Frazier um and Joe Frazier beat me once he knocked me down a couple times he broke my jaw he did a b and c but when other people knocked out Joe Frazier they knocked him out cold all George foreman did was knock him down five times when george foreman fought ken norton and when he fought these other

fighters he knocked him down but he didn't knock him out cold he's not nearly as powerful you guys are making him out to be he's like i'm muhammad ali i'm the champ when i knock someone out they're out that's it they don't get back up even if what he's saying like isn't even true he deconstructed the situation and painted a much different picture than what everybody else had in mind. And he said, I'm a boxer. I'm going to go in there and I'm going to box. I'm going to use my knowledge rather than use my strength. And that's going to be what wins. And he did it. And I've got to take a pee break, so you've got to keep talking. Oh, geez.

Really trusting me, huh? Well, that's good. I oh geez you're really trusting me huh well that's good i'm glad you're leaving right now because i got nothing for you guys to say um well shit here we go uh if anybody is uh is down with the nintendo switch i want you guys to let me know what you guys think about the uh the new online service thing or whatever i I'm going to try to convince Mark to play Tecmo bowl with me. Um, cause that's a whole, you know, uh,

whatchamacallit, um, feature of it all. And, um, I'm pretty stoked about that. But, uh,

in regards to what we're talking about right now today, about like motivation and whatnot, um, for you slim gyms out there, I'm talking about to this, the skinny dudes that are trying to gain weight. Uh, hopefully you guys have been paying attention to what, um, Mark and I've been doing. I've been training with Mark since, uh, basically since day one, when we, when he started, uh, doing the bodybuilding show. Um, it's been kicking my ass. It's been a whole lot of fun

and I'm happy to announce that I've gained, let's see, it's been three months now. I've gained basically three pounds. I know that doesn't sound too crazy, but how many of you listening right now that have had a hard time gaining or maintaining weight, how many of you would be down for an extra three pounds right now? I was telling them how we've been training for like whatever three months and it's a pain in the ass for me to gain weight but how many people out there would be down to gain three pounds right now that's essentially what i've

gained this whole time right it's because i was running out of shit to say i started talking about nintendo switch and whatnot but uh no dude it's like i was getting really frustrated but at the same time i'm like well hey like go back three months ago and if i could weigh a little bit more yeah i would be so down and it's because of that consistency and again like again if you kind of deconstruct the situation a little bit and think oh you know you know, it's only three pounds. Or you can think, shit, man, it's three pounds. Imagine if there was another three pounds. Like, if there was another three pounds, that'd be six pounds. Now, like, you know, if we're talking about six pounds in seven, eight, nine months, like, that's a lot of weight.

What if that happens again? Like, what if that, what if that continues to happen? And what if in a year you gain 10 pounds? Yeah. That's a lot. And that's like, that's a good pace to gain weight at because you don't want to gain, like if we really wanted to, we could, we could have you weigh 20 more pounds, but we're not going to get a result that looks good.

You know? Yeah. We have you eating 20 more pounds, but we're not going to get a result that looks good. You know? Yeah. We have you eating pretty healthy. You know, you're doing a good job with your food choices and stuff. And so, um, we, we don't want to like just all of a sudden have you be like all bloated and shit. Yeah. That would suck.

I kind of did something like that last summer and I just, I didn't feel great, but this, this time around training with you and like learning everything from you has been it's been awesome and the the numbers on the bars are going up uh so i i'm ecstatic about that but i i hopped on the scale and i'm like fuck dude like this is not happening what's going on here but you know like like i was saying earlier it's like, it's not much weight, but it's more than what it was. It's obviously working. Right. Again, if you want to gain more, then we can throw in a little bit more food.

But I think if we gain too rapidly, we've got to also be careful because sometimes you have a hard time. Well, not sometimes. You oftentimes have a hard time digesting stuff, too. Because sometimes you have a hard time, well not sometimes, you oftentimes have a hard time digesting stuff too. So it's like, man, if we start throwing too many things at you, like we might, you know, your whole day might be on the toilet. Yeah. Which, uh, that, that wouldn't be great either. Happens all the time.

But, you know, the things that are easy to do, you know, everyone has kind of a different, or people, a lot of, a lot of what we've talked about today are, these are all going to be things that you're gonna have to sit down and, and, uh, try to make sense of yourself. And you're going to have to, I hope oftentimes when you listen to this podcast, you don't just listen to it. Um, and you don't have any time to absorb it. I would suggest that a lot of times when you listen to podcasts that I do, that we do that are specifically like this, that you sit down with a pen and paper and you start to write down, um, you start to take notes on some of this stuff because this information is really, really critical to, uh, your personal development and you should have a journal and you should be keeping track of these things right down the date, right down the time, right down where you are, right down.

Because when you look back two or three years from now, having this information could be really critical. And Andrew talking about weight gain and talking about some of these things, it might be a good idea for him to keep a food journal, which may not have all the food in it all the time. But has some of the design of the diet in there has some information about the training and it just has the month and has the year and when you go back and you look at it and say oh man you know when i did that i gained three pounds i gained three pounds and how many months has it been so i've just at the very beginning of your your uh your uh show prep, basically. So I don't know.

I think that was like almost three months ago. Yeah. That's super short period of time, by the way. It's just, I mean, but if you were to tell me like, hey, in three months, if you work out basically every day and you eat, you know, three to five meals every day, you're going to gain three pounds, buddy. Right. You know, at the time, yeah, I'll take it. But man, that sounds like you're going to gain three pounds, buddy. Right. You know, at the time of like, yeah, I'll take it. But man, that sounds like a lot of work for three pounds. Yeah.

But that's just what it takes for me. Yeah. Well, yeah. And everybody's a little bit different, but even for myself, like, you know, when we, that transformation of, uh, five or six weeks or whatever it was, when we got that shot of, uh, honey from from behind when we did the podcast and then we were in that gym and i was uh super jacked uh my body weight change was not that much either you know and my change from when he was actually here to being on stage i think it was

like a i think i weighed five pounds less was all that it really was but you know the look is also a lot different but you know there's a lot different, but you know, there's a lot of things that, you know, there's a lot of things that go, that go into all that. And there's a lot of things that, um, you know, the, the actual shape that you're in, it can be quite a bit different than the actual, uh, body weight. There could be smaller things, uh, kind of transforming, but anyway, people, you know know you need to sit down and actually think about these things and you should start to kind of develop some ideas of your own of what these things mean you're trying to find what it is that you want to do you want to try to find what it is

that you like to do try to make sense of some of these quotes i've shared with you try to make sense of some of the stuff that i told you about muhammad ali try to make sense of some of the things we shared today with you about dana white try to make sense of hold on to these dreams. Try to make sense of practicing and testing your will and your work ethic. How are you going to do that? You need to do that every day. In order for you to do anything, you need to stay healthy. You need to stick to your plan. You need to stick to these things that you want to do. You need to stick to, you need to hold on to your dream, but you can't hold on to your dream unless you're healthy.

So you have to take care of your health. You have to figure out some form of a diet because if you're not, you don't have to diet to have a six pack, but you need to be healthy in order to kind of keep any of these hopes and dreams alive. If, if you're not healthy, and your health includes everything from your mental health to your physique to your strength, everything, you need to work on getting stronger.

You need to work on being mentally tougher. You need to work on feeling better because if you don't feel good, you're not going to want to do anything. If you feel depressed, if you feel sad, if you feel mad, if your ankle hurts and your knee hurts, then you're not going to want to do anything. If you feel depressed, if you feel sad, if you feel mad, if your, if your ankle hurts and your knee hurts and you're not going to want to do anything, you have to take care of your nutrition. You have to figure out ways. And it doesn't mean that you have to, um, eat perfectly every day to maintain your health is not hard.

It's not hard. It's easy. And the definition of easy for me, which I've been dwelling on this for a long time, but the definition of easy for me is just things that you can do. Squatting 1,080 was easy. I did it. I squatted it. I took it down and I squatted it. What's my definition of things being easy? Things that I can do.

What's your definition of easy? Maybe your definition looks a little different. Maybe your definition is I did, I did this without, without a sweat, right? Maybe that's your definition. Maybe everybody's definition can be a little bit different, but it should be just things that you can do. That keeps it really simple. I either could do it or couldn't do it. Can you, um, wake up every day and run five miles? If you can't, if that doesn't seem easy and that doesn't seem like something that you can manage or maintain, then let's not write that down. If you can wake up every day and figure out one thing that you can do for yourself,

figure out one thing every single day, every single morning, one thing, just one thing that you can do for yourself every single morning, what would that thing be? And make sure that whatever that thing is, is easy. For me, I wake up, it takes me too long probably to get out of my house, but I get my ass out of my house and I go walk for about 20 minutes. And today I ended up doing two two of those walks i did one walk at you know around 5 30 in the morning and i did another walk probably closer to 8 30 or so um because i just was looking at the clock and i was like yeah looks like i could sneak in another walk you know i feel good i feel i have a little bit of downtime here before the

crew comes over before we shoot this commercial and uh i didn't think about it for too long because thinking about it for too long is going to slow you down too much i get out the door and i walk and it's it's it's easy to do um becoming wealthy was easy for me it wasn't hard um one of the reasons it was easy for me is because I had, I mean, reason number one that it was easy for me is because of where we live. We live in the United States. I don't have a lot of things blocking me from being free enough to think of the things that I thought of in order to do all these things. Again, the things that are easy for me are the things that I've been able to do or things that I feel are fairly comfortable for me to do. And you're going to have to start to determine that for yourself.

But as I said earlier, find the things that are easy to do and repeat them. Find the things that are easy to do that are helpful to you and do them often. It's not, it's not, that's not hard to do. to you and do them often. It's not, it's not, that's not hard to do. Now, along the way, things are going to fall apart. Along the way, your heart's going to be broken. Along the way, you're going to have pain. You're going to have sorrow. You're going to have all these things. You can turn that pain into power. You can turn that pain into motivation. You can take all these things that harm you and that are against you and you can use them as fuel to continue to get better um i heard a quote the other day and i'll

share this with you too uh the guy said my i can is higher than my iq you know meaning like who cares about how smart you are just have some fucking will to do something just be you know strong-headed about something want to get something done want to accomplish something and one thing that i think sometimes i'm worried about is when i see when i see people that don't really want to do anything that's where i sometimes get frustrated when i see somebody who frustrated. When I see somebody who's gaining weight, when I see somebody who's getting heavier and they're a young, capable human being, you know, I might get frustrated and I might say, man, I'd like to see more from

that person just because like, there's really, there's just no reason for them to be that way, you know, but it's having perspective into their life. Who knows what's going on in their life. But for me, when I'm looking at it from an outsider looking in, I'm thinking, man, it's actually kind of easy eating, eating healthy every single day of your life. And all the time isn't very easy to do. Managing your weight though, is easy to do. We need your weight, though, is easy to do. We need to get that in everybody's head right now. Managing your body weight is not hard.

It's easy to do. Getting in some form of exercise is not hard to do. It's easy. It's not hard. It's easy. It's easy. You need to convince yourself of that. It's important that you convince yourself of that.

Being healthy is not hard. It's easy. You need to convince yourself of that. It's important that you convince yourself of that. Being healthy is not hard. It's easy. Not being excessively overweight is easy. Falling victim to eating some ice cream here and there is hard, right? It's going to happen. You're going to make bad choices. You're going to make bad decisions. You're going to eat some ice cream. You're going to eat some buffalo wings. You're going to eat some Buffalo wings. You're going to eat some Doritos. You're going to, you're going to fall victim to these things. We already know that. That's not, that's not anything that we're even trying to discuss. We're just trying to discuss the things that are easy to do. And a lot of these things are easy to manage. And that's what I wanted to share with you today. And hopefully you guys are understanding that. And hopefully you're, hopefully you are when we are doing these podcasts,

hopefully you are writing these things down because, uh, I think they can really help you advance. And then whichever, uh, little gem that you like most, this is partially kind of trying to advertise, but partially not.

Um, if you tell somebody about it, it'll help you remember it and help you put into action too whatever it is not necessarily speaking about what you're not going to do not that but i just mean like whatever like the quote from muhammad ali like that'd be sick to tell a homie that right yeah i that that's 100 true like um you, once you kind of put some of these things. Once you kind of put some of these things out there in the atmosphere and people kind of understand your hopes, your dreams, people understand what it is that you want to do. Tell people what you want to do. I want to be the best photographer in the world. Tell people that you'll make a big difference, but you can't neglect these things that are easy to do. Um, when you were telling, um, when you were telling Kevin about, you know, how, you know,

you did that for two years, you know, I've had many people come up to me and say, Hey man, you know, um, I got a question about like, you know, you, you benched 854 pounds. I got a question when you were benching in those bench shirts at that, like, I remember a bunch of people would, uh, used to come up to were benching those bench shirts did that like i remember a bunch of people would uh used to come up to me back when the bench shirts were popular and like you ever get like you know you ever get like a lot of pain in your forearms and i just wanted to punch them because i'm like oh my god you have no idea how much pain like i can't even describe to you how much pain like it's just the pain was excruciating

you're fucking killed um but the pain wasn't you know it wasn't anything that was going to deter me from from continuing onward and from doing it the pain was part of it like yeah i'm going to handle more weight more and more weight all the time and i want to bench press this weight, it's, you know, I knew that it was going to hurt. But at no time did it make me want to, you know, did it deter me from doing what I wanted to do? You force yourself to kind of do these things on a daily basis. And yes, at times it was hard. It's at times it was so painful that it was hard to press forward on it. But

when you don't neglect the things that you're supposed to do, you end up getting the result that you want. So these things that are in front of you, you know what, you know what you're supposed to do. People know what's good for them. They know that going for a walk is healthy and then they just decide not to do it. People know that being on their phone for too long is not healthy, but they choose to be on their phone too long. You know, it's just and again, I get frustrated when I see it because I'm like, it doesn't have to be that way. And then someone be like, but you know a taco bell is so good yeah taco bell is great i totally understand i'm not saying that you can't eat

taco bell i'm just saying that if you want to eat taco bell you need to train you know you need to like earn it like go do something and then people always want to celebrate everything too and it's like what are you celebrating you haven't even done anything like, oh man, thank goodness. It's Friday. Why? You didn't do shit all week anyway.

Right. You didn't work, work hard in the first place, homie. Like you got to pick your shit up. You weren't doing nothing all week. And now you want to celebrate something that you, you didn't even accomplish anything.

And it's just, it's really frustrating when you see it, you just see it time and time again. And as you go old, grow older, you start to recognize these things more and more. And you're just, it's really frustrating when you see it. You just see it time and time again. And as you grow older, you start to recognize these things more and more. And you're just like, man, what is going on with people? Like, this really sucks. And then you start to kind of understand, okay, now I get it. Now I understand why that guy complains all the time.

Because his life does kind of suck. Because he is kind of a loser. Because he's not putting in the effort that he should. he knows it he knows that he's not doing the things that he's supposed to do when he's supposed to do him he's not doing the things that he doesn't want to do when he doesn't want to do them and so therefore he's stuck he's stuck he's just he's in this perpetual uh motion of just kind of being this damn circle. Just going through the motions. He's going through the motions and he's going to be stuck there forever. So don't get yourself stuck.

Find what it is that you want to do. Stick it out. Work hard. All the same shit that you always hear all the time. But hopefully I broke it down for you a little bit differently. Deconstruct some things. Be like Muhammad Ali. Don't let, like like back to that thing

with george foreman george foreman was knocking out everybody george foreman uh he he knocked down uh joe frazier i think like five times in one round before they just they said enough man we saw enough like you kicked his ass we get it and they called the fight and then when ali fought him they were like you know what ali's getting old he's gonna get his ass kicked foreman's gonna destroy him foreman's gonna kill him and ali just said all the opposite things he said all the opposite things and before they even fought he got he uh was getting interviewed and he said you know i called joe frazier this i called uh sunny list and that i called uh Ken Norton you know he had a

nickname for each guy and he's like you know what I'm calling George Foreman he's like I'm calling him the mummy because he moves like a damn mummy he moves slow he's big he's dumb I'm gonna be way faster than him he's like he moves around like this and he's moving all slow and everything he's showing you how he's gonna throw these wide punches he's like I he moves around like this and he's moving all slow and everything. He's showing you how he's going to throw these wide punches. He's like, I don't fight like that. He's like, I'm going to be sticking and moving. He's like, I float like a butterfly sting, like a bee. He's not going to be able to hurt me.

He's not going to be able to hit me. And then when he got in the ring with him, those of you, the boxing fans know what happened, but he did the rope, a dope thing where he just stayed on the ropes most of the time. And he used the science of boxing against George Foreman to wear him down. They got into like the third round or so, and Ali realized that Foreman's punches were losing a little bit of zip to him. He stayed on the ropes the entire time. I think it was around the fourth or fifth round.

He told George Foreman, he said, is that all you got? And George Foreman was like, holy shit, that is all I have. And if you watch the fight and you watch the first few rounds, Ali's really throwing some really hard stinging punches with this kind of look on his face. Like if you really watch the fight again, uh, as we're kind of watching it here, he's really throwing some punches with some hard intentions, which is kind of uncharacteristic of Ali. Cause a lot of times, although he was trying to knock your ass out, he would throw a lot of punches that were a little bit more, accurate than they were powerful but once he realized he could absorb some shots and i think ali also realized that he wasn't as fast as he was

previously and so he kind of had to stay on the ropes but once he realized he can lean on these ropes and he could absorb these punches he realized that foreman's punches were getting weaker and weaker and weaker and there was a point in the fight where ali yeah says to form and he says that all you got and it just took everything out of foreman it just absolutely killed them i mean mazel just knocked him out right there and i think ali ends up taking over the fight in like either the eighth or the tenth round or so but we're watching some footage here foreman's throwing some bombs but he's not really landing anything that harmful he's landing a couple shots but it's not all that bad and uh you know the rest is history ali takes care of him and knocks him out just as he said but he deconstructed like if this guy can deconstructed. Like if this guy can deconstruct, uh, this, uh, unbeatable character, then you

should be able to deconstruct your day, break down your day, break down your job, break down the things that you're supposed to be doing. And you should be able to, uh, make them not seem so hard, not seem so daunting. You want to lose 20 pounds. Okay. Losing 20 pounds is not, is not necessarily, uh, easy, but just cause it's not easy. It doesn't mean that it's hard. Andrew, could you lose 20 pounds? I mean, you know, you, you don't have a lot of body weight to lose, but like if you had to, could you lose 20 pounds? I believe so. Yeah. weight to lose, but could, like, if you had to, could you lose 20 pounds? I believe so.

Yeah. Uh, do you know that you, uh, do you know anything that, that is in your body that, uh, that you have that wouldn't allow you to lose two pounds? Oh, no. Right. Not at all. So, so you know that you can lose weight. We know that you can gain weight, you know, and you hear people a lot of times they'll say, I, I, oh man, I can't, I can't lose weight we know that you can gain weight you know and you hear people a lot of times they'll say i i oh man i can't i can't lose weight well you you have trouble losing weight but you can't lose weight because you just told yourself that you can't that's an amazing knockout

by the way the way he turns him around on those ropes and everything is unbelievable that's actually the first time i watched like not the not the whole fight, but, like, that recap that way. I never actually noticed the way Foreman was just, like, throwing haymakers to his body. Mm-hmm. And he's just taking it. I didn't know it was that, I mean, I don't want to say lopsided, but, like, the fact that he, like, could not do anything. Like, that's so frustrating. Yeah.

Yeah. Holy shit. do anything like that's so frustrating yeah yeah holy shit well ali also you know when he when ali was also kind of deconstructing this um i'll i'll send you that too um i'll send you that interview too and uh we will i i can't attach it right now because i won't be able to find it but we'll attach it to this podcast so you guys can listen to that because i think it's important that you guys um that are listening and that are fans of the show that you guys are understanding

some of the things that I'm figuring out and getting motivated and hyped up with some of the same information that I'm getting. But he also, you know,

Ali says, basically, who cares how strong he is? I'm not going to get hit by those punches anyway. It's like, man, you just, and ali does get tagged by a lot of those shots in the fight because he's not as fast as he was when he was younger but um what an what an amazing thing to do just you just burst everybody's bubble they had this theory right they had this they had this big theory going in They had this theory, right?

They had this, they had this big theory going in. This is going to happen. This guy's way stronger than you. He's knocked out everybody. And he has a really, really powerful punch and he's going to hurt you. He's going to jack you up with these punches. And then you, and then you sit down for an interview and you say, nope, you know why that's not going to happen? And they say, why? Because he's not going to happen? And they say, why?

Because he's not going to be able to hit me. I'm too fast. I'm too good. I have better footwork than him. He's a mummy. He moves slow. He's clumsy. He doesn't have the footwork that I have. And then what does that do to the room? What does that do to everybody in the room? Everybody in the room goes, oh my God, maybe he he's right and then he made point after point after point where he just took it so far that the it wasn't just one guy interviewing him there's probably a hundred people in that room listening to muhammad ali that one guy in the room becomes a believer ali is believing it more because this guy's into it. Now everybody in the room, there's like an energy, an energy, there's an aura in the room that is allowing Ali to kind of build this story. Well, not only that, it's interviewed for TV.

It's an interview for TV. It's on like ABC. He's on like wide, wide world of sports. So how many people see that? 500,000 people, a million people. I don't know. A how many people see that 500 000 people a million people i don't know a couple million people see it and now everybody that thought that ali was going to lose now at least has the suspicion that shit man maybe ali's right i don't know if he's going to lose he'll probably actually well he always wins So he'll probably actually win, right?

Yeah. And then what did that do to Foreman? They had to kill him. And then the whole thing was in Africa and Ali got everybody behind him. And I mean, it was just, you know, it just the, actually, I don't know. I'm sorry.

I'm thinking of a different fight. I don't think that one happened in Africa. I can't remember. No, that one did happen in Africa, I think. Rumble in the jungle, right? Anyway. Anyway, now I could be getting confused. I could be getting mixed up because that might have been with Frasier.

I think that was with Frasier, the one that was in Africa. But anyway, you know, it throws everything for, well, we should look it up. Yeah. But it throws everything for a loop. And, you know you when you put stuff like that out there in the universe and you believe it and you get other people to believe it that's a huge thing that's a very powerful powerful thing just keep chipping away and keep getting those things done and you know just keep that in mind like that nothing has to be these things

don't have to be hard gaining weight's not hard losing weight's not hard um you may have difficulty doing it but it doesn't mean that it's hard it may not necessarily be easy for you but it doesn't mean it's hard yeah ollie versus foreman was rumble in the jungle in zaire there we go so yeah so he got all of africa behind him too he got all of africa him too. He got all of Africa believing in him and thinking that Foreman was crap. There you go. Anything else, Andrew? Well, I was

just thinking about that when McGregor was going to fight Mayweather. And he just came out with a new whiskey, by the way. I don't know what that's going to taste like, but who knows. He had a mural painted in his gym of him knocking out Mayweather. So every time he walked into the gym, he saw it. Every time he walked out of the gym, he saw it.

So he was trying to just believe it himself. But I remember that's when I was like, no, he can't. Watching his training, just like, nah, like he, he probably, you know, he can't watching his training. Just like, shit, maybe he can. So what you were just saying right now about like the interview, like the conversation started, like, nah, he doesn't have a chance. And then it ended with like, well, shit, man, it is McGregor. Like, who knows? Yeah. You know, so. No, that happened. I mean, uh, you know, um um that was the most ridiculous example of that too because how the hell was conor mcgregor gonna beat one of the greatest boxers of all time

in boxing yeah right it just no one no one really thought it was possible and then they started listening to mcgregor and they were like oh i don't know and m McGregor did everything he could, and it was a fairly lopsided fight. But he went in there, and he showed that he had a lot of boxing skill, that's for sure. Yeah. You know? It was fun to watch. It was fun. It was definitely fun to watch.

McGregor's got to be fighting pretty soon, right? That big fight's got to be coming up pretty soon. Yeah, I don't know the exact date, but it's coming up. He's been shredding. He looks crazy right now, too. Getting all leaned out and all ready to go. Yeah, he's a savage. All right, well, we wrapped up a video shoot today.

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