Mark Bell's Power Project - Mark Bell's Saturday School EP. 6 - When Did Mark Bell "Make It"?

Episode Date: June 27, 2020

Hello Class, welcome back to Mark Bell's Saturday School. Today we asked Mark Bell when he really felt he had, "made it". The Super Training Gym and Sling Shot have been very successful and have made a lot of money for the Bell's, but Mark is still on a rampage to this day, so it's great to learn when he felt he had "made it". Subscribe to the Podcast on on Platforms! ➢ https://lnk.to/PowerProjectPodcast Support the show by visiting our sponsors! ➢Piedmontese Beef: https://www.piedmontese.com/ Use Code "POWERPROJECT" at checkout for 25% off your order plus FREE 2-Day Shipping on orders of $99 ➢Icon Meals: http://iconmeals.com/ Use Code "POWERPROJECT" for 10% off ➢Sling Shot: https://markbellslingshot.com/ Enter Discount code, "POWERPROJECT" at checkout and receive 15% off all Sling Shots Follow Mark Bell's Power Project Podcast ➢ Insta: https://www.instagram.com/markbellspowerproject ➢ https://www.facebook.com/markbellspowerproject ➢ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mbpowerproject ➢ LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/powerproject/ ➢ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/markbellspowerproject ➢TikTok: http://bit.ly/pptiktok FOLLOW Mark Bell ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marksmellybell ➢ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarkBellSuperTraining ➢ Twitter: https://twitter.com/marksmellybell ➢ Snapchat: marksmellybell ➢Mark Bell's Daily Workouts, Nutrition and More: https://www.markbell.com/ Follow Nsima Inyang ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nsimainyang/ Podcast Produced by Andrew Zaragoza ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamandrewz #PowerProject #Podcast #MarkBell

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Saturday School with Mark Bell. Hey! This is an amazing opportunity for the people to ask the People's Coach any question that they have for the People's Coach. You know, this is a different format than a regular podcast. It's a little bit more shorter in length. Just real concise questions with even conciser answers, if that's a word. Real quick, shout out to PiedmonteseBee. For more information, just head over to piedmontese.com. That's P-I-E-D-M-O-N-T-E-S-E.com at checkout. Enter

promo code POWERPROJECT for 25% off your order. And if your order is $99 or more, you get free two-day shipping. Anywho, Mark Bell, this has been a lot of fun, man. Got some early feedback from Saturday School and everything seems very positive. I really liked the format. It seems really cool. A really cool way to get more information out to the people that some people just may or may not know. And today's question comes internally from the team. This comes from Josh Settleage. And he's asking, at what point did you maybe think or maybe realize that you had officially like, quote, made it? You know, life is long, you know. Some people think that life is short, but I would say that you can probably only say that when you're like 80,

you know, when you're towards the end, when you're in the fourth quarter of your life. But, you know, life is a long battle. And so I don't think you ever really, you know, I don't think you ever really make it per se, because I don't think I really make it because you're ever evolving. You know, I think that I think that working on yourself needs to be a full time job for your entire life. You know, so for as long as you should live, you should be learning how to live. You know, there's there's no reason not to there's no reason not to learn um maybe you used to make fun of people a lot maybe you used to maybe you used to cuss a lot maybe you used to you know have foul language or maybe you used to um not have any you just didn't give a shit about anybody else you know can you improve upon that i think you

can i think that's i think it's your moral obligation as a person to be stronger. Jordan Peterson, who a lot of people look up to, he's got his 13 Rules of Life. I believe that's his book. Maybe it's 12 rules, but I think it's 13 Rules of Life. Um, and his book is, you know, sold millions and millions and millions and millions of copies. And there's, there's a quote in there that I think people, I think every person should hear. Um, he says that you shouldn't go around being a weak loser. And what's that? What's the opposite of a weak loser, a strong winner? Like you, how do you, how can you figure out how to get W's? How can you figure out how to get victories? How can you figure out how to learn more? You know, I share this, uh, idea of do more, be more. And, you know, if you were to look at that quickly, you might think, oh shit, that might be kind of a mistake because you're going to build up a lot of anxiety over always trying to do more. But no, it's just whatever you can handle. And you'll be able to handle more at other times in your life. In strength training, we might refer to this as general physical preparedness. So how do you prepare to run? Well, you prepare to run by walking. And then maybe you add some resistance to the walking. Maybe you walk hills or maybe you walk further or maybe you walk a little faster.

And then you start to jog and then you start to run and you get used to it over a period of time. But even if you become an excellent runner, even if you become a marathon runner, even if you become a excellent runner, even if you become a marathon runner, um, you don't really ever make it like you're still just, you're still just a runner, you know, with my power lifting, right? Like I power lifted. And, uh, even though I was a strong power lifter, um, I'm not the only power lifter. Um, even, um, even Ed Cohn, who's considered the goat in powerlifting, he's not the only powerlifter. There's still a lot of room for other powerlifters. So, you know, you can kind of look at it and say, oh, he broke world records. He made it. But he would say he's in constant competition against himself. And so when the man in the mirror is your competition, then you're on a lifelong

quest. You're on a lifelong quest to figure out how to consistently and constantly do better. Now, where you can feel a little bit better about that and not have anxiety towards that is that almost everything you need in life, not everything because you need other people as well, but almost everything that you need in life comes from within, comes from with inside you, the answers to intuition, all the crap that you need to know. It's all there. And really all it requires is might sound, it might sound difficult to do. But you need to think about your thoughts. You can't always control.

You can't always control what you think, but you have control over how you think. So I can't help to think that like, you know know when i'm in a shower something funny that andrew said three days ago and i just start burst out laughing for no reason and then my wife thinks i'm half crazy like what are you laughing about and then she's like then she's got concern why are you laughing about andrew while you're naked in the shower you know um we don't have control over it sometimes randomness just comes to mind Somebody says something and then you think of a funny thing from SpongeBob or something like that. Or how many times have you, and Andrew and I are really guilty of this. We do this one all the time.

We reference movies and TV shows all the time. Oh, that reminds me of that show. I remember that Seinfeld episode. I remember that comedian. I remember Chappelle said this or, or you know we're doing that constantly um and you know those kind of those kind of things you're trying to you're um you're not really trying to think of those things they just pop into your head right but we still have even if something bad pops into your head um which it's usually more

positive than negative um but when something bad pops in your head you which it's usually more positive than negative. But when something bad pops in your head, you have control. You have a lot of control over how you decide you're going to think about that. You have agency over it. You have rule over it. And I think that maybe most people in general probably understand and realize, okay, if somebody says something to me that I don't like, I can filter it. I can filter that information, and I can decide what to do about it. So if you're walking down the street and someone calls you a jackass, you could say, what? And you can turn around and you can get into a fight with them, right? You could say what and you can turn around you can get into a fight with them, right?

Well, what if that guy who yelled that What if he shot you and your family, you know, like he tried to start something with you. You didn't know anything about the guy Now think about just how dumb the whole situation is, you know in so many different ways Somebody on the street called you something You can interpret that whatever way you can. You can say, oh, that's odd. I don't know why that guy said it to me. I'm just going to mind my own business. If somebody corners you and somebody's trying to do something to your family, you obviously need to protect yourself and do whatever you can. But these are all things that you can decide what you're going to do.

You don't have to, these things aren't predetermined by what you used to do. These things are, um, they're not automatically going to happen because of the way that you used to do things or because of the way that you live your life. And also, you know, going back to the original question here of, you of making it. Yes, I recognize I have money. I recognize I have some conveniences. But the finances don't ensure anything. They don't, um, all they do is they may get rid of some inconveniences of life. They may remove some anxiety, having, um, some financial literacy feels good because I understand money a little bit. Um, and, uh, it does allow, it does allow me some freedoms, but, um, life is very shaky and, um, I can't control, um, I can't control, like if, if I get cancer or don't get cancer, I can try to live the best life that I can. I can, you know, I can do the best I

can and, and make the choices I feel that are the most healthy for me. So I avoid diabetes, heart disease, cancer, those things. But some of the people I love the most have, have gotten cancer. Some, some little kids end up with cancer. I mean, who is less deserving of something terrible to happen than just a little kid who's just trying to be a little kid and they get leukemia, right? So, you know, there's no guarantees in life. There's nothing, you know, I've found something good to do that makes me feel good, that makes me happy, makes me excited. And so in that sense, I feel that I've made it because I'm happy, but I've been happy for a long time. I'm trying to think. I mean, my earliest memories are happy ones. I grew up with good parents. memories are happy ones. Like I grew up with good parents. I was just watching something the other day with my wife and the husband of the house was beating up on the mother. And I'm like,

I don't know what that's like. I can't imagine. I've heard my parents argue. And I remember my heart thumping. And I remember being nervous about that and they never made contact with each other ever in their lives. I never hit, they've never hit each other. You know what I mean? Um, nothing ever got even close to that and nothing, they didn't even really yell at each other, but you would just, you know, you'd hear them kind of arguing back and forth. And even that is terrifying. So I don't know, you know, I don't know what it's like to have some of that in my life. Most of my life has been pretty happy. So it's hard to identify.

I guess what I'm saying, like I haven't had a lot of rainy days. So the sun's always shining in some sense. But I also kind of look at things that way, too. Like that's a little bit of my mindset. You know, I have two brothers as well that grew up in the same household that they didn't view things the same way. You know, I got one brother who's gone because he was bipolar. He had drug addictions and his situation he viewed the world was against him and that every day sucked and he didn't know how to make every day like feel good or be fun. And I feel almost the exact opposite. Everyone has a day where they

kind of feel melancholy, wishy-washy. Maybe it's raining out that day and you're just, for whatever reason, you're just not into it. You're not, you're not into the regular flow of life. Everyone has those days, but for the most part, like I'm pretty excited about stuff every single day. I'm pretty happy every single day. So there's not like a day where I can be like, you know, I, I, I made it on this day and I don't, you know, flying first class, uh, with my family overseas to other countries and being in nice hotels and eating really good food and stuff. I don't really feel like that's, I don't feel any different. I just, I've traveled before when I didn't have money. And I I guess what I'm trying to say in a long winded way is, um, I kind of have always felt like I made it. I always felt like I always, I've always felt good, you know?

And I think if you can figure out some shit that makes you feel good every day, like I feel really good about my family. I feel really good about my work. Um, I feel really good about my family. I feel really good about my work. I feel really good about where I spend my time. I feel really good about who I spend my time with. I feel really good about the decisions I make with my food. I feel really good about the decisions I make when I go to bed, when I wake up, you know, I, I feel really good about all these things. And I, I, again, I again, I got to point to this, and I think this is super important, is that life is long. And at 43, there's people my age then all of a sudden something kind of goes a little awry. Maybe they end up divorced or something happens. There's a crack somewhere in the system and they hurt their knee or they twisted their ankle and they

gained 40 pounds. You know, life is long. Like I don't have any guarantee that I'm going to be, you know, jacked and tan just because of previous history of things that I've built up. Even discipline, even discipline itself is kind of a weird thing because you know this, Andrew, from going through your own transformation, sometimes the discipline feels good. And sometimes the discipline makes you feel like crap because you're just like, man, like this is never ending. This is relentless. I got to do this cardio every day. I got to train

like this every day. I got to eat like this every day. And so you might, so let's say that through that process, through eating good every single meal for eight weeks and through training really hard twice a day for eight weeks and through getting the right sleep and making all these sacrifices through that process, you get an amazing shape. We snap some pictures. You're like, you look amazing. You don't really feel like you made it because the entire time was you were like trapped in your own like cell, you know, you were trapped in your own. So it's an interesting thing.

Like when you work, work, work, work, work, you work so hard for something, you keep working towards something, working towards something, working towards something. And when you get the payoff, the payoff doesn't really change anything. If you learned from the journey along the way and you learned a lot of good lessons about yourself and you learned how am I going to extrapolate some of the stuff I've learned during this journey and put it into my everyday life, then I think that's where you can say, you know what? That was absolutely incredible. And I quote unquote made it. If you went through that process and you learned something really valuable about yourself that you can carry through the rest of your life, then I can say you made it. But just because you invent a product and you make a bunch of money,

there's no reason to spike the ball in the end zone as hard as you can and do a touchdown celebration. There's still a lot more points to put up on the scoreboard. There's still a lot more plays to execute. There's just still so much more to do and so much more to explore. It doesn't mean that I don't take satisfaction and stuff. It just means that everybody that currently works for me, I want everyone that currently works for me to make more money. You know, I want the company to continue to make, the only way that's going to happen is to have more sales. That doesn't mean that I'm crazy about sales.

It just means that I want to keep my eye on the prize and I want to make sure the company is invested in that. I want to make sure – can the people that currently work for Slingshot, can they make 10% more? Can they make 20% more? Can they make 30% more? Can they make 20% more? Can they make 30% more? Can they make 40? Yeah, I think all of that is possible. And so let's just keep killing stuff. Let's keep having a good time with it. And let's not worry about whether we thought that we made it or not. That was incredible, Mark. Honestly, no further questions. I think everybody got enough out of all of that. Hopefully, you guys got a good lesson in today's Saturday School.

Take notes and send us follow-up questions. I think this was a very impactful episode. I think you guys just received a ton of value. And because of this format, you guys can reach out and ask follow-up questions. We're trying to make it as easy for you as possible. We're trying to be as accessible as possible. I think that's what separates us from pretty much any other podcast out there. You know, we will take in all of your questions.

Hopefully, be able to ask all of them. You know, we'll see how that goes. But yeah, like I said, write, write stuff down, go back, go back, listen to this whole episode one more time and, uh, whatever sticks out to you, write that down and kind of just let that marinate in your head. And, uh, if you guys have follow-up questions, just hit us up. Um, the easiest way probably be Instagram at Mark Bell's power project on Instagram at MB power project on Twitter. That's another easy way. It's real quiet over there still right now because we don't have that many followers.

So if you want to kind of ditch some of the noise, hit us up there. Or me personally, if you want to reach out, it's at IamAndrewZ. Mark Bell, we're making it as easy as possible for everybody. Is there another way if people want to get in touch with you? Yeah, you know, go check out my social media. I'm on Instagram at MarkSmellyBell.

You can check me out on Twitter at Mark Smelly Bell. You can check me out on Twitter at Mark Smelly Bell as well. And I think Andrew brings up a good point there. Like there's just multiple ways of trying to get in touch with us. You know, just, just leaving a comment on our social media may not be that effective. Although if you pick the right form of social media, maybe it will be. So if you go over to Mark Bell's Power Project on Instagram and leave a comment and say, hey, I got some questions. You could throw a question right in there and we will screen capture it and we will do our best to make sure that we get it. You can also slide into the DMs on there. And again, we might not be able to see everything, but what if you were to slide into the DMS on Twitter? That's a move that not a lot of people

do. My mailbox is still open on Twitter. I don't, I don't have it closed. Some, some of the, some of the people with the checks next to their name, sometimes they don't have that available because they probably get way, way too much stuff, but it's available to you. If you DM me, I'm not going to be able to see it. I just, it's, I, I look at a lot of them. I look at a lot of them, but it's, uh, it's very difficult for me to see, or you can hit up Andrew personally, um, in SEMA, like whatever way you want to try to get to us, um, try to figure out a way to get to us. I'm at Mark Smiley Bell, Instagram, Twitter, and, uh, I have a YouTube channel as well.

Strength is never weakness. Weakness is never strength. Catch y'all later.